Blog posts tagged with 'utf8':
About using UTF-8 fields in MySQL
Date: 04 Dec 2010Tags: [ MySQL ] [ performance ] [ utf8 ]
I sometimes hear: “make everything utf-8 in your database, and all will be fine”. This so-called advice could not be further from the truth. Indeed, it will take care of internationalization and code-page problems when you use UTF-8, but it comes with a price, which may be too high for you to pay, especially if you have never realized it’s there..