#dev | Logs for 2016-12-11

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[00:06:59] chromas is now known as cheaty
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[09:23:54] <Bytram> TheMightyBuzzard: just stumbled upon this page and thought you might find it interesting, even if it is slightly out of date: https://eev.ee
[09:23:54] <aqu4>  ^ "3Dark corners of Unicode / fuzzy notepad"
[09:26:07] <Bytram> Here's one snippet I found of interest:
[09:26:10] <Bytram> "One more trivium: MySQL has a utf8 encoding, and it’s generally regarded as best practice to use that for all your text columns so you can store Unicode. But, oops, MySQL arbitrarily limits it to three bytes per character, which isn’t enough to encode most astral plane characters! What a great technical decision and not at all yet another thorn in the unusable sinkhole that is MySQL. Version 5.5 introduced a utf8mb4 encoding that fi
[09:26:10] <Bytram> xes this, so have fun ALTERing some multi-gigabyte tables in production."
[09:30:50] <Bytram> laters
[09:52:07] chromas is now known as farticle
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[11:26:38] <TheMightyBuzzard> Bytram, yeah, well known issue. one of these days i'll get around to converting us to utf8mb4 but last time i tried not all of our tables could convert.
[12:13:26] <TheMightyBuzzard> #fite Hera
[12:13:26] <MrPlow> #fite spam going to channel #fite
[12:13:37] <MrPlow> #fite Hera falls broken at TheMightyBuzzard's feet.
[15:05:02] <TheMightyBuzzard> #fite Hera
[15:05:02] <MrPlow> #fite spam going to channel #fite
[15:05:13] <MrPlow> #fite Hera falls broken at TheMightyBuzzard's feet.
[15:05:44] <TheMightyBuzzard> #fite cmn32480
[15:05:44] <MrPlow> #fite spam going to channel #fite
[15:08:19] <MrPlow> #fite TheMightyBuzzard falls broken at cmn32480's feet.
[19:15:03] <cmn32480> #fite Hera
[19:15:03] <MrPlow> #fite spam going to channel #fite
[19:15:14] <MrPlow> #fite Hera falls broken at cmn32480's feet.
[23:14:59] <cmn32480> #fite Hera
[23:14:59] <MrPlow> #fite spam going to channel #fite
[23:15:31] <MrPlow> #fite Hera falls broken at cmn32480's feet.
[23:58:09] Bytram is now known as Bytram|fite
[23:58:58] Bytram|fite is now known as Bytram