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Adam Hooper
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Adam Hooper's personal blog at adamhooper.medium.com covers programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment is linked, and it discusses the Rob Pike UTF-8 history thread and MySQL's utf8mb4 rather than this blog's writing. The linked posts are on UTF-8 history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-04-08
What Hacker News says?
So now we know who is really responsible for the whole MySQL utf8mb4 fiasco -- these 2 guys sitting in a diner, conjuring up a brilliant scheme to cover 4 billions characters, which turned out to exceed the actual requirement by more than 2000x. September 1992: 2 guys scribbling on a placemat. January 1998: RFC 2279 defines UTF-8 to be between 1 to 6 bytes. March 2001: A bunch of CJK characters were added to Unicode…
Comment linking /in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434
on “The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (2003)”Submitted In MySQL, use “utf8mb4” instead of “utf8” (2016) as a story · 643 points
HN discussionSubmitted My philosophy of exceptions: they're always ambiguous (2021) as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4" as a story · 21 points
HN discussion