https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/charset-unicode-sets.html
10.10.1 Unicode Character Sets
MySQL supports multiple Unicode character sets:
-
utf8mb4
: A UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set using one to four bytes per character. -
utf8mb3
: A UTF-8 encoding of the Unicode character set using one to three bytes per character. -
utf8
: An alias forutf8mb3
. -
ucs2
: The UCS-2 encoding of the Unicode character set using two bytes per character. -
utf16
: The UTF-16 encoding for the Unicode character set using two or four bytes per character. Likeucs2
but with an extension for supplementary characters. -
utf16le
: The UTF-16LE encoding for the Unicode character set. Likeutf16
but little-endian rather than big-endian. -
utf32
: The UTF-32 encoding for the Unicode character set using four bytes per character.
The utf8mb3
character set is deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL release. Please use utf8mb4
instead. Although utf8
is currently an alias for utf8mb3
, at that point utf8
will become a reference to utf8mb4
. To avoid ambiguity about the meaning of utf8
, consider specifying utf8mb4
explicitly for character set references instead of utf8
.