As shown above, this behavior can lead to data loss, but it gets worse — it can result in security vulnerabilities.MySQL’s utf8 encoding is awkwardly named, as it’s different from proper UTF-8 ...

Using Unicode with MySQL 4.1 is simple, and there are two ways to specify which character set to use. The first approach specifies a character set as the default for a table; the second declares a ...

First, let’s sort it out The first question people are likely to ask: If the most recent version of MySQL was a 5.x release, why’s this one 8.0? For one, version 6.0 was canned as part of the ...

MariaDB/MySQL Charset/Collation Fixer - A Python tool to painlessly convert MariaDB/MySQL databases, tables, and/or columns into different character sets and collations, most notably utf8mb4 + utf8mb4 ...

It seems that MySQL 4.1 isn't mature enough to handle the complexities of UTF-8. It would seem to me (having used Oracle) that specifying UTF-8 as the database encoding would take care everything.

A Unicode character set can include characters from multiple languages, scripts, or symbols, such as Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Emoji, and more.