Title: db – Immanuel Raj

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# Tag: db

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   ## 󠀁[Demystifying MySQL’s UTF8MB4: A Guide to Character Encoding in Databases with WordPress in GCP and Cloud SQL](https://immanuelraj.dev/demystifying-mysqls-utf8mb4-a-guide-to-character-encoding-in-databases-with-wordpress-in-gcp-and-cloud-sql/)󠁿
   
 * [April 2, 2024](https://immanuelraj.dev/demystifying-mysqls-utf8mb4-a-guide-to-character-encoding-in-databases-with-wordpress-in-gcp-and-cloud-sql/)
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 * [Immanuel Raj](https://immanuelraj.dev/author/iamimmanuelraj/)
 * in [Databases](https://immanuelraj.dev/category/databases/), [Google Cloud](https://immanuelraj.dev/category/gcp/)
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 * UTF8MB4 Introduced in MySQL version 5.5.3, is an extension of the UTF-8 character
   encoding scheme. While UTF-8 can encode 1.1 million characters, UTF8MB4 can encode
   the full range of Unicode characters, including emojis and characters outside
   the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). In MySQL utf8 is currently an alias for utf8mb3
   which is deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL release. At that…