Re: [Koha] Character sets in MariaDB 10.5

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,

[Koha] Character sets in MariaDB 10.5

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%'; +--++ | Variable_name| Value |