On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:30:42AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ineiev wrote: > > The question is what to do. we could wait for MySQL or store new messages > > in something like base64, with a magic prefix. > > Upgrading quickly is problematic. And trying to upgrade just the > database system and not the clients is also problematic. Or perhaps > the reverse if that is the problem. At least not without testing. In > another set of systems I tried upgrading just half of things and then > the clients and server were out of sync with options they were trying > to pass. It caused a lot of problems. > > How much of a problem is this?
Some characters break the comment they are in. > Can we scan the data before storing it > and detect when we will have the problem and then encode it then? Probably we could. I think some UTF-8 parsing would be needed, it's somewhat harder than to encode unconditionally.
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