How to store Emoji Character in MySQL Database

Question

I am using Emoji character in my project. That characters are saved (??) into mysql database. I had used database Default collation in utf8mb4_general_ci. It sh

Answer 1

Emoji support for application having tech stack - mysql, java, springboot, hibernate

Apply below changes in mysql for unicode support.

1. ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
2. ALTER TABLE CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

DB Connection - jdbc url change:

jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/?useUnicode=yes&characterEncoding=UTF-8

Note - If the above step is not working please update mysql-connector version to 8.0.15. (mysql 5.7 works with connector version 8.0.15 for unicode support)