Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
by charrondev on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:29PM
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Technical lead for vanillaforums. It’s a huge PHP MySQL app. Probably 10b+ rows in production DBs. We did the the migration in 2017 if I remember correctly.
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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)
by mwattsun on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:24PM
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Not to take anything away but by legacy I meant late last century sites. VanillaForums was released in July 2006 according to Wikipedia, which makes it Web 2.0. Wikipedia also says "UTF-8 has been the most common encoding for the World Wide Web since 2008" I'm glad you posted though because now I know that sites are ok starting in that time frame, not before and then never touch the old ones again.