Re:UTF-7: a ghost from the time before UTF-8
by devy on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:46PM
(#18572974)
There are tons of unicode characters that are outside of BMP that MySQL's original 3-byte implementation didn't support. [1] It just happened that emojis have been becoming wider spread than those non-BMP unicode characters.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5567249/what-are-the-mos...