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This is required for 4-byte UTF 8 encoding (which is required for things like certain UTF-8 character sets and certain emojis) whereas mysql defaults will use only 3-bytes for UTF 8.
I recommend changing the default mysql database config in
database.phpto the following Laravel 9 Defaults:(See lines 55, 56 here: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/9.x/config/database.php)
existing graphene defaults are:
This is required for 4-byte UTF 8 encoding (which is required for things like certain UTF-8 character sets and certain emojis) whereas mysql defaults will use only 3-bytes for UTF 8.
Notably, we may need to run an additional migration to update the database, table, and column defaults to use 4-byte UTF-8 after this change is made. More info here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43003301/changing-laravel-mysql-to-utf8mb4-for-emoji-support-in-existing-database