I'm working as a DBA on mysql 5.5.24 servers. Recently we faced one issue in production when one user tries to LogOn from iPhone and its phone name was having emoji character in itself. Currently, in our system we have utf8 charset, which supports 3 bytes, but as its phone name was having emoji (4 bytes), the registration failed. As mentioned in this link, we tried to reproduce same scenario in ou
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