UTF-8 is what made me switch. It’s insane MySQL has something called UTF-8 that isn't really UTF-8, but do have a type UTF8MB4 that actually is correct. This means if you use UFT-8 in MySQL, you can’t use emoji for example.
And the fact that adding real utf-8 support limited (limits?) the length of strings that can be indexed
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> This means if you use UFT-8 in MySQL, you can’t use emoji for example.
I for one have always viewed this as a perk.
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