UTF-8 all the way through
Data Storage: Specify the utf8mb4 character set on all tables and text columns in your database. This makes MySQL physically store and retrieve values encoded natively in UTF-8. Note that MySQL will implicitly use utf8mb4 encoding if a utf8mb4_* collation is specified (without any explicit character set). In older versions of MySQL (< 5.5.3), you’ll … Read more