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This particular limitation of MySQL hit me HARD HARD HARD circa 2008 when I tried to use some of that upside down text you find online as test data, and just couldn't work out why I was getting data corruption.

Luckily Perl's Unicode support is fantastic, and saved my ass

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How did you solve MySQL's unicode limitations with Perl?

At my previous^2 company we worked around MySQL's limitations by just storing our data in VARBINARY columns, encoded as utf8 on the client-side. Worked like a charm. (I hate MySQL)

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