Thank you for the pointers. I guess I am looking for a canonical sane settings to aim for, whilst using the database with Emojis et al.
I am totally confused at what I should be using or whether what I have is good.
+--------------------------+------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value |
+--------------------------+------------------------+
| character_set_client | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_connection | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_database | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_filesystem | binary |
| character_set_results | utf8mb4 |
| character_set_server | latin1 |
| character_set_system | utf8 |
| collation_connection | utf8mb4_general_ci |
| collation_database | utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci |
| collation_server | latin1_swedish_ci |
+--------------------------+------------------------+
Is that an OK way to interact with a MySQL database? [url]https://s.natalian.org/2019-04-29/collation.txt[/url]
I.e. ignore collation_server, character_set_server, since they are not on a DB level ?