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32427	Fix MySQL example of CREATE DATABASE to use utf8mb4 character set	Angus Holder	nobody	"MySQL's `utf8` encoding cannot store all unicode codepoints, only those that will fit in 3 bytes (codepoints 0x0000 to 0xFFFF). [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30074492/what-is-the-difference-between-utf8mb4-and-utf8-charsets-in-mysql See here for more info]

We should recommend the `utf8mb4` encoding, which fully supports unicode, to avoid users running into cryptic errors like [https://www.eversql.com/mysql-utf8-vs-utf8mb4-whats-the-difference-between-utf8-and-utf8mb4/ here]:
    
{{{
Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x81...' for column 'data' at row 1
}}}

Pull request: https://github.com/django/django/pull/13984"	Bug	closed	Documentation	dev	Normal	duplicate			Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0