What's the difference between UTF8 and UTF8mb4

[LeonLatex]

So, what's the difference between UTF8 and UTF8mb4?

[Strider64]

1 hour ago, LeonLatex said:

So, what's the difference between UTF8 and UTF8mb4?

Don't know the real difference, but if you want to use emojis then UTF8mb4 is the way to go -> "Database character encoding: Ensure that your database is using the utf8mb4 character set and the utf8mb4_unicode_ci collation. This character set supports storing emojis and other Unicode characters properly." Though you still use `<meta charset="UTF-8">` in the HTML and set the following if you're using PDO ->

$dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=your_database_name;charset=utf8mb4";
$pdo = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password);

 

[kicken]

The amount of bytes used to encode characters, and as a result the total amount of characters that can be encoded.

10.10.1 Unicode Character Sets

 

[LeonLatex]

Thank's guys 😊😊👍