…ty, As to why Swedish, it’s because MySQL AB (…ty, As to why Swedish, it’s because MySQL AB (the company that created MySQL) is a Swedish company. I just hope, they change the default collation to utf8mb4 in their upcoming version.

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morgo
Feb 24, 2017 · 1 min read

The plan is to switch the default in MySQL 8.0. You can read more about it here: http://mysqlserverteam.com/sushi-beer-an-introduction-of-utf8-support-in-mysql-8-0/

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