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.
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