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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys by nvivo on Saturday June 10, 2017 @10:09AM (#14527374)
Not sure what deserved a downvote here... Is there anything incorrect?
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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys by pornel on Saturday June 10, 2017 @02:00PM (#14528360)
It's not incorrect, but a strawman (I didn't downvote you btw).

The question was why UTF-8 in MySQL has weird limits. It wasn't about what MySQL should have done in an alternative universe.

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Re:Be Careful with UUID or GUID as Primary Keys by nvivo on Saturday June 10, 2017 @07:22PM (#14529775)
Yeah, but I didn't point out what mysql should have done in an alternative universe. Mysql DOES support fixed lenght unicode, just use the correct encoding: ucs2 or utf32. What it does with utf-8 is what any system that supports utf-8 must do.
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