On Dec 13, 2019, at 5:04 AM, Jaime Crespo
<jcrespo(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, Roy,
I will answer assuming you are talking about wikireplicas/WMF production, or the default
Mediawiki installation
Yes. Specifically, the instance you get when you run "sql enwiki" from
tools-sgebastion-08.
Mediawiki is planned to drop 3-byte utf8 MySQL
support.
Hmmm, as far as I can tell, the change from utf8mb3 to utf8mb4 will be invisible to me,
but good to know.
It is not unthinkable that you could find cases with
invalid UTF-8 characters, so be ready to capture an exception
Good idea, I'll add the exception handing. Thanks.