UTF-8 is the dominant Unicode encoding on the web. Use utf8mb4 in MySQL to support 4-byte characters (emoji, some Chinese, some Arabic). Getting encoding wrong means garbled text — one of the most annoying bugs to debug.
Unicode
Also known as: UTF-8
Also known as: UTF-8
UTF-8 is the dominant Unicode encoding on the web. Use utf8mb4 in MySQL to support 4-byte characters (emoji, some Chinese, some Arabic). Getting encoding wrong means garbled text — one of the most annoying bugs to debug.