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The article explains why MySQL’s legacy “utf8” character set only supports three‑byte sequences, causing errors with genuine four‑byte UTF‑8 characters, and shows how the proper “utf8mb4” charset resolves the issue, including historical background, practical examples, and migration guidance.
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