Thank you, I think we will stick to utf8 then. Vince
On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 12:00:48 PM UTC-7, Christian Hammond wrote: > > Hi Vince, > > Right now, don't use utf8mb4 by itself. That *is* the right encoding to > use for proper Unicode support, yes, but additional settings need to be > enabled manually on your database (globally and per-table) in order for key > lengths to not be truncated (which will otherwise break things horribly). I > could provide this information if you wanted to be a guinea pig, but the > reality is that future upgrades won't be able to apply the settings on > newer tables just yet, so upgrades can still break the compatibility. > > I've done a lot of experimentation with this, and I'm hoping that by the > Review Board 4.0 timeframe that I can have built-in support, documentation, > and a conversion tool for properly enabling utf8mb4 and all related > settings as part of Review Board. I know exactly what needs to be done, > it's just a matter of doing it and having a lot of testing in place, which > we weren't able to do for 3.0. > > Christian > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Vince Thyng <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Is anyone using utf8mb4? We are looking at moving from latin1 to utf8. >> This article makes the case for using it over utf8, >> https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4 and am hoping someone in >> the community already has experience with it. I figure we will need to >> look at the size of every text field to be sure that losing 25% of the max >> will not cut off any data, or else increase the size before switching to >> mb4. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Vince >> >> -- >> Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: >> https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ >> Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: >> https://rbcommons.com/ >> Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "reviewboard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Christian Hammond > President/CEO of Beanbag <https://www.beanbaginc.com/> > Makers of Review Board <https://www.reviewboard.org/> > -- Supercharge your Review Board with Power Pack: https://www.reviewboard.org/powerpack/ Want us to host Review Board for you? Check out RBCommons: https://rbcommons.com/ Happy user? Let us know! https://www.reviewboard.org/users/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "reviewboard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
