MySQL charset and collation recommendations

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Let’s go through a humourous journey when setting up a MySQL database for our application. The story becomes much lesser funnier when you get to know that we had to go through this in production because we started with the wrong MySQL charset and collation. TLDR: Always use utf8mb4 charset and utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation for your […]

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