The ultimate emoji encoding scheme

Question

This is my environment: Client -> iOS App, Server ->PHP and MySQL.

The data from client to server is done via HTTP POST.

The data from server to client is d

Answer 1

Use utf8mb4 throughout MySQL:

• SET NAMES utf8mb4
• Declare the table/columns CHARACTER SET utf8mb4
• Emoji and certain Chinese characters will work in utf8mb4, but not in MySQL's utf8.

Use UTF-8 throughout other things:

• HTML:

¿ or á are (or at least can be) encoded in utf8 (utf8mb4)