MySQL 8.0: When to use utf8mb3 over utf8mb4?
MySQL 8.0: When to use utf8mb3 over utf8mb4? Long time MySQL users will recognize that there are two varieties of utf8 support in MySQL; utf8mb3 and utf8mb4. Let me dig a little bit deeper in explaining the history between the two: MySQL 4.1 (2004) was the first version to support character sets and collations. … Source: MySQL 8.0: When to use utf8mb3 over utf8mb4?