Can somebody explain what 4-byte characters in MySQL/MariaDB are? "MySQL is used as database but does not support 4-byte characters. To be able to handle 4-byte characters (like emojis) without issues in filenames or comments for example it is recommended to enable the 4-byte support in MySQL. For further details read the documentation page about this."Do I need them for greatest functionality? THX
I suppose they are UTF characters, the UTF32 kind. UTF8 is usually sufficient, and that is 8 bit variable width. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#UTF
