2025-03-28 UTC
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[artlung] (one company I worked for had user messages with emojis getting eaten because of a database field that didn't allow it. the dba updated the mysql field to utf mb4 live but warned "there will be more to this" and indeed, it worked initially, but but multiple systems operated on those fields. backups and restores and replication and mimetypes and charsets and javascript libraries all needed tweaks and checks to "fix" it).