I'm planning on using utf8mb4 in my database.
Now as I've learned I should always use UTF-8 in my <meta charset, but do I always do, so when I'm using utf8mb4 in my database?
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What do you mean by "meta"? – Rick James May 25 '18 at 21:26
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2@RickJames In HTML you declare for example in de head tag. – JeroenM May 28 '18 at 07:36
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Why does the database matter? Your HTML page isn't querying the database; you'd hit some API which would return its own character encoding. – OneCricketeer Aug 01 '22 at 18:39
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utf8mb4 is specific to MySQL. The rest of the world calls it UTF-8.
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1So, to clarify, in HTML the utf-8 character set is exactly the same as utf8mb4? In MySQL utf-8 is the equivalent of utf8mb3 which does not support all of the unicode characters. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-utf8.html – Chris Rogers Jan 02 '22 at 12:23