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#25607 Collation UTF-8 Multibyte (utf8mb4) - Are there news?

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Latest post by on Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:20 CDT

Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:14 CDT

Hotkeyharry

Hi Dale, hi Nicholas,

are there news about switching collation to UTF-8 Multibyte (utf8mb4)?
I have some difficulties with switching.
On some sites its no problem to switch on other sites it doesn't (same Host) switch correct? It stays on utf8_general_ci ...

Yes plugin is activated, cache is cleared and I try it more than one time!?

Is there a workaround to check it out? Is it possible but is it a good idea to do it in the mySQL database within itself?

best regards
Harald

Thursday, 14 July 2016 06:55 CDT

nicholas

Since Joomla! 3.5.0, released two months ago, utf8mb4 is a core Joomla! feature. If your server supports it, updating Joomla! will switch your database to utf8mb4. You should not use the Admin Tools feature on Joomla! 3.5 and later (including 3.6).

Please keep in mind that for utf8mb4 to work you need to have a new enough version of MySQL, PHP, the MySQL connector libraries and the PHP-MySQL connecting code too. If one of your sites doesn't convert to utf8mb4 automatically it's just because the server doesn't support it. Nothing us or Joomla! can do about it (trust me, there is an entire 6-month-log saga in the Joomla! issue tracker about all the work half a dozen people did to make utf8mb4 work as smoothly as possible).

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Saturday, 13 August 2016 17:20 CDT

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Edited by on 2016-08-13 17:20 CDT

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