February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
16h 10m
English
The default character set has been changed from latin1 to UTF8. UTF8 is the dominating character set, though it hadn't been a default one in previous versions of MySQL. Along with the character set default, collation has been changed from latin1_swedish_ci to utf8mb4_800_ci_ai. With these changes globally accepted, character sets and collations are now based on UTF8; one of the common reasons is because there are around 21 different languages supported by UTF8, which makes systems provide multilingual support.
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