I just switched to utf-8 for more characters, but I only store user posts in a couple of tables which I needed utf-8 for. Should I for some reason change all the tables to utf-8? Should I not?
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I just switched to utf-8 for more characters, but I only store user posts in a couple of tables which I needed utf-8 for. Should I for some reason change all the tables to utf-8? Should I not?
Each table in a MySQL database can specify its own encoding. However, unless there is a real need for different encodings, it is a good idea to keep them all the same and avoid any subtle errors in the future as you (or future developers) forget that this table is in that encoding and the other table isn’t.