Question: What is the difference between utf8mb4 and utf8 charsets in MySQL? I already know about ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings; but I’m curious to know whats the difference of utf8mb4 group of encodings with other encoding types defined ...

Question: While debugging my Rails App I found the following messages in the log file: This seems to stem from my database being MySQL with not-quite-utf-8: According to the answers to this question CHARSET=utf8 is only capable of handling 3 ...