[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60362: Emojis cause "Updating failed. Could not update post in the database." error

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#60362: Emojis cause "Updating failed. Could not update post in the database."
error
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 Reporter:  mikefitzman                          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
                                                 |  Review
Component:  Database                             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-test-info needs-testing has-     |     Focuses:
  patch                                          |
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Comment (by staurand):

 I had a similar issue in a plugin, I ended up encoding emojis for all
 charsets except "utf8mb4".
 {{{#!php
 if ( 'utf8mb4' !== $charset ) {
 }}}
 That's the safest way we found to fix this bug.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60362#comment:19>
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