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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by est on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:07PM (#21654080)
I think the lines of code that changed everything is when a guy changed "utf8" from 6 bytes to 3 bytes somewhere in a commits of https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server.

I failed to bookmark it nor find it. Sorry.

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Re:Lines of code that changed everything by lilyball on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @09:16PM (#21654119)
What does MySQL have to do with this? It seems it was RFC3629¹ that restricted the domain of UTF-8 to cap at U+10FFFF and therefore remove 5- and 6-byte encodings.

¹https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3629

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