id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc,stage,has_patch,needs_docs,needs_tests,needs_better_patch,easy,ui_ux 18392,Make MySQL backend default to utf8mb4 encoding,EmilStenstrom,nobody,"Background: I just ran into a problem with iPhone emoji characters being saved into MySQL. The text was cut off after the first emoji character. After some research I found which explains how it works: http://mzsanford.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/mysql-and-unicode/ The recommendation is to use MySQL 5.5, and the ""utf8mb4"" encoding. Suggestion: Make ""utf8mb4"" the default encoding for MySQL 5.5 and up.",New feature,new,"Database layer (models, ORM)",1.4,Normal,,utf8mb4 mysql,kitsunde@… django@… cvrebert moggers87 flisky cmawebsite@… contact@… Jonas Trappenberg ask@… django@… emorley@… clokep@… Adam Johnson,Accepted,1,0,0,1,0,0