How to insert emoji into MYSQL 5.5 and higher using Django ORM

Question

I am trying to insert emoji\'s into a certain filed in my mysql table. I ran alter command and changed the collation to \"utf8mb4_general_ci\"

Answer 1

this save me on MYSQL 8.0.1

my.cnf

[client]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

[mysqld]
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
character-set-server = utf8mb4
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci