The "mb4" stands for "multi-byte 4". It allows utf8 to handle characters up
to 4 bytes long. Basic utf8 for MariaDB only handles characters up to 3
bytes long. Three bytes is already enough for the entire Basic Multilingual
Plane, which includes everything needed for nearly all modern languages, as
Hi
1. In the last few years when installing Koha on Debian GNU/Linux 9 or
10 the character sets in MariaDB were as follows:
MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE '%char%';
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| Variable_name| Value |
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