#3619 (ok 4.1) Support 4-byte UTF-8 symbols (`utf8mb4`)

[Mathias Bynens]

All 4-byte characters in the database (stored with `utf8mb4` on MySQL 5.5.x) are being displayed as '?'. They are fine in the database — confirmed by our own scripts that use `SET NAMES utf8mb4` and by using the command-line `mysql` utility.

Here’s an example of such a symbol, in case you wanna test this: http://graphemica.com/%F0%9D%8C%86

This has been discussed here before: https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/forums/forum/72909/topic/4380272

[Mathias Bynens]

Here’s a write-up explaining the problem in detail, and offering a general solution: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/mysql-utf8mb4

[Michal Čihař]

What is actually needed to add support? You can choose the charset as used for connection and everything should work just fine.

[Michal Čihař]

Ah phpMyAdmin enforces utf8 charset, fixed that in fb30c148f22f3e1534cb216a5994660b09c70795.