> On Dec 13, 2019, at 5:04 AM, Jaime Crespo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Roy,
> 
> I will answer assuming you are talking about wikireplicas/WMF production, or 
> the default Mediawiki installation

Yes.  Specifically, the instance you get when you run "sql enwiki" from 
tools-sgebastion-08.

> Mediawiki is planned to drop 3-byte utf8 MySQL support.

Hmmm, as far as I can tell, the change from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4 will be 
invisible to me, but good to know.


> It is not unthinkable that you could find cases with invalid UTF-8 
> characters, so be ready to capture an exception

Good idea, I'll add the exception handing.  Thanks.


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