Re: MySQL/MariaDB utf8mb4

2017-10-18 Thread Christian Hammond
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

MySQL/MariaDB utf8mb4

2017-10-18 Thread Vince Thyng
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