Re: [exim] Exim and MySQL with UTF-8 encoding

On 2017-11-09, Jan Ingvoldstad via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> I don't know if this has any relevance, but please note that the MySQL
> "utf8" character set is not UTF-8.
>
> It's the subset of UTF-8 that consists of up to three-byte UTF-8
> glyph. If you have a four-byte UTF-8 glyph, this fails.
>
> MySQL failed to fix this issue, and instead introduced another
> character set, "utf8mb4".
>
> Everyone who wants to use UTF-8 datatypes SHOULD use this character
> set to avoid nasty surprises.

... With the exception of those who use "BMP" and call it "UNICODE"
(not shouting, they generally use all-caps)

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