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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by rkagerer on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:49PM (#29913849)
If software lasted a lifetime, life would be so much easier.
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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by kortex on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:36PM (#29915156)
For the end user, not the maintainers. Who's gonna sign up to keep that ENIAC, PDP-11, ALGOL 58, python2.3, win3.1, etc, code running, stable, and not a source of exploits?

Or do you mean in the abstract, fairy-tale ending sense?

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Re:In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) by dimitrios1 on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:00PM (#29926007)
I think they meant in the tongue-in-cheek sense.
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