Hello Chris, Many thanks for this and the detailed description! I will have to consider if this is worth the effort. Could you by any chance let me know the parameter responsible for this in SOGo?
Best regards Andy > Am 11.02.2017 um 21:02 schrieb Chris Coleman <users@sogo.nu>: > > UTF-8 encoding fully supports emoticons; however, MySQL’s limited version of > utf8 does not support emoticons! > MySQL’s utf8 can only store 3 byte characters, which are characters from the > Basic Multilingual Plane - characters from the majority of modern languages > and some symbols. Emoticon characters exist in the Supplementary > Multilingual Plane for which we need 4 bytes and so must use utf8mb4. > > To save emoticons to a MySQL database we need to change the character set and > collation properties, on the database connection, the database, the tables, > and the columns, to use utf8mb4. Not necessarily all the columns, a minimal > solution has utf8mb4 on only the columns containing user-entered text. > > Below find commands to change the character set and collation properties. > For pro users only. Warning, backup your entire database before trying this > because the risk of data loss is real: > SET NAMES utf8mb4; > ALTER DATABASE database_name CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = > utf8mb4_unicode_ci; > > ALTER TABLE table_name CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE > utf8mb4_unicode_ci; > > ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE column_name column_name VARCHAR(140) CHARACTER > SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci NOT NULL; > > ** Bear in mind that changing from utf8 to utfmb4 affects the maximum lengths > of columns and index keys. The maximum lengths of columns will be unchanged > when modifying the tables with the commands discussed here; but in terms of > actual characters the amount that can be stored is reduced. This is a > consequence of changing from being able to store only 3 bytes up to 4! You > may need to update these lengths. ** > > REPAIR TABLE table_name; > OPTIMIZE TABLE table_name; > > $ mysqlcheck -u root -p --auto-repair --optimize --all-databases > > Finally to change the character set of the connection, that setting must be > changed inside the SOGo application. > > Hope this helps. > > >> On 2/10/2017 9:21 AM, "Andreas Blaha" (andr...@blaha.at) wrote: >> Hi all, >> strange request from a user: >> when an appointment created on the iphone/ipad contains an emoticon >> (wherever: title, notes, location etc.) the appointment is visible and >> manageable on the iphone/ipad, but not in the web gui. It can be seen but >> does not give any details, cannot be edited or deleted from there, I cannot >> view the source text of the appointment, but I get the according reminders. >> The appointment is not visible at all in Outlook 201x/ActiveSync. This >> behaviour I can reproduce, both in 2.3.19 and 3.2.6a. >> I only found an open bug referring to UTF8, not sure if this has anything to >> do with it. >> I have no Android device at hand to check whether it is the same there or >> not. >> >> Has anyone experienced this as well? >> >> Best regards >> Andy >> -- >> users@sogo.nu >> https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
