Hi, Based on some pain points with my team and things I've heard from others, I created an RFC to handle "national" character sets for emulated prepared statements: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/extended-string-types-for-pdo
I had previously suggested this as a driver-specific change, but believe it's worthwhile to make it generic since it affects multiple drivers: https://externals.io/thread/400#email-12542 Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Adam