How to store Emoji Character in MySQL Database

Question

I am using Emoji character in my project. That characters are saved (??) into mysql database. I had used database Default collation in utf8mb4_general_ci. It sh

Answer 1

1) Database: Change Database default collation as utf8mb4.

2) Table: Change table collation as CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin.

Query:

ALTER TABLE Tablename CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin

3) Code:

INSERT INTO tablename (column1, column2, column3, column4, column5, column6, column7)
VALUES ('273', '3', 'Hdhdhdh                                                                    

                                                        
            

Answer 2

The main point hasn't been mentioned in the above answers that,

We need to pass query string with the options "useUnicode=yes" and "characterEncoding=UTF-8" in connection string

Something like this

mysql://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOSTNAME:PORT/DATABASE_NAME?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8

Answer 3

Emoji support for application having tech stack - mysql, java, springboot, hibernate

Apply below changes in mysql for unicode support.

1. ALTER DATABASE <database-name> CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
2. ALTER TABLE <table-name> CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

DB Connection - jdbc url change:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/<database-name>?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8

Note - If the above step is not working please update mysql-connector version to 8.0.15. (mysql 5.7 works with connector version 8.0.15 for unicode support)

Answer 4

The simplest solution what works for me is to store the data as json_encode.

later when you retrieve just make sure you json_decode it.

Here you don't have to change the collation or the character set of the database and the table.