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'Full' Unicode support (Miscellaneous)

posted by rr  , Berlin, Germany, 09.06.2025, 15:42

Starting from the issue with the Cyrillic letter О I noticed the same for Cyrillic А.

Because I expected trouble with many other international characters, I now used a 'brute-force approach' to convert each database table to the utf8mb4 character set and set utf8mb4_unicode_ci for collation.
For that I had to change each table's engine from MyISAM to InnoDB.
I also set the database connection to use utf8mb4 (utf8 before) and changed the HTML charset from ISO-8859-1 to utf-8.

I wanted to do that already many years ago, but my MySQL knowledge is very limited.
There may be some side effects. If you find any, please report them here.

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