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