By wildmandmc on

After Updating from 7.44 to 7.50 Getting this on Status Page. 4 byte UTF-8 for mysql is disabled.
From what i read , this is mainly for allowing for emojis, Asian symbols, mathematical symbols, etc.
If my sites (71 of them ). Do Not use them, Does leaving this like it is pose any problems and/or security risks.
Current use is Database system version 5.6.29
Thanks ahead of time.
abe

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Jaypan commented

If my sites (71 of them ). Do Not use them, Does leaving this like it is pose any problems and/or security risks.

There will not be any security problems, and if your sites do not use 4byte characters, and never will, you will not have any troubles with them either.

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shinmaikeru commented

I want to enable this now that I know about it because I have problems caused by four-byte UTF8 characters, which you cannot see in the input AT ALL, causing webforms to throw errors and preventing users from submitting. The user has always been Japanese, using a Japanese OS and pasting from something else, maybe PDF or Word. The error messages I was getting led to Japanese MySQL forums where the users were talking about incompatible four-byte UTF8 characters.