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Defect #26428

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Japanese Emoticon characters cause error in issue desc and journal

Added by Matthew Paul about 7 years ago. Updated almost 7 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Database
Target version:
-
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Due date:
% Done:

0%

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Resolution:
Invalid
Affected version:
3.3.1

Description

When I add the following string to a new issue or the journal note for an issue it throws an error. Looking at documentation here I believe it is to do with the fact that my Bitnami stack creates the tables in mysql utf8 which is 3 byte not 4 byte. This given, could we patch or add code or an option so that, in that case, it simply converts any bad characters to ? - I see code that does that anyway so I'm not sure why that isn't happening automatically.

The text is this -

Here is the character that causes a problem with mysql utf-8 tables

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