On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Debajit Adhikary wrote:
> I have changed my MySQL database columns to support utf8mb4 (4-byte
> unicode), and I can render chinese characters etc correctly now.
Chinese characters work fine with uft8 too.
>
> When I upgrade my XWiki to a newer version in the futur
I have changed my MySQL database columns to support utf8mb4 (4-byte
unicode), and I can render chinese characters etc correctly now.
When I upgrade my XWiki to a newer version in the future, will this cause
issues in the upgrade? (I am guessing there may be database schema changes
in a future XWik
It will be almost impossible to use utf8mb4 with XWiki, because of the
terrible way mysql is designed. Here's the reason why:
mysql imposes several hard limits on the maximum size of several things:
length of indexes, length of rows. These lengths, unfortunately, are not
computed as the maximum si
XWiki use utf8_bin for subwikis (and recommend it for main wiki in the
documentation) right now.
Since we use than in the hope it support everything you should
definitely open a jira issue.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 2:17 AM, Debajit Adhikary wrote:
> I have an XWiki installation, and I noticed that
Some more information:
On my Mac, when I try to set up XWiki with MySQL, I ran the following:
# Install mysql and start
brew update
brew install mysql
mysql.server start
# Now I can connect as "mysql -uroot"
# Create a new MySQL database for XWiki
# see http://platform.xwiki.org
I have an XWiki installation, and I noticed that emoji's were not getting
saved correctly and were rendering as question marks in XWiki. This is
caused by MySQL's default encoding which is "utf8" and not "utf8mb4"
(4-byte UTF to store the full unicode character set)
To fix this, I am in the proces
