ERROR 1366 (HY000): Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x9C' for column 'comment' at row 1

Question

Here\'s my sql:

INSERT INTO comments (createdate,userid,profileid,comment,status) 
VALUES (1449503167,65704,65704,\'@Mr_S66 Wish I was There For The Xmas Par         


        

Answer 1

Something in your environment is not set up to correctly process Unicode text.

The byte sequence F0 9F 98 9C, represented incorrectly as "😜" in your query, is the UTF8 encoding of the Unicode character "