[Koha-bugs] [Bug 18336] Use utf8mb4 instead of utf8 for MySQL tables, columns, and connections

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18336

--- Comment #69 from Victor Grousset/tuxayo <victor.grousset at biblibre.com> ---

(In reply to M. Tompsett from comment #10)
> A lot of fields are shrunk from 255 to 191. This is because
> index size for VARCHAR on InnoDB has a max size, in bytes, of 767 bytes (or
> similar) and utf8 uses 3 bytes for each char, and utf8mb4, 4.
> 767/3 > 255. but 767/4 > 191.
> https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-conversion.html
> 
> Gain functionality (necessary for true unicode), lose space (not an issue
> yet).



So, isn't there a loss of data on VARCHAR ? I didn't see VARCHAR being
converted to something else.

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