Mysql server does not support 4-byte encoded utf8 characters

Question

I\'ve received a server error running a Data transfer component from Sql Server to MySql db. The error message reads as follows:

[MySql][ODBC 5.1 Driver][mys

Answer 1

"4-byte encoded UTF-8 characters" refers to characters with code point > 0xFFFF, i.e., ones whose code points don't fit within 16 bits (are outside the basic multilingual plane (BMP)). Many older systems don't support characters outside the BMP.

Characters outside the BMP are usually CJK characters; I don't know if that's the case with you here. :-)