How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias BynensAlternative title: The things we do to store U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO (💩) correctly. Are you using MySQL’s utf8 charset in your databases? In this write-up I’ll explain why you should switch to utf8mb4 instead, and how to do it. UTF-8 The UTF-8 encoding can represent every symbol in the Unicode character set, which ranges from U+000000 to U+10FFFF. That’s 1,114,112 possible symbols. (Not all of these
