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vatotemking
on May 29, 2017
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Unicode is hard
So in 2017, whats the correct character set to use in MySQL?
lmm
on May 29, 2017
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"utf8mb4", though really in 2017 the correct thing is to use Postgres.
vatotemking
on May 31, 2017
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but not everyone can use postgres
lmm
on June 1, 2017
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Anyone can if they want to enough. Some don't want it enough, or want other things more, but not using postgres is always a choice.
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