Re: Weird utf-8 encoding problem using webserver that does not occur in command line client

[Rick James]

And, in 5.0.15 and after:

mysql> SELECT CHAR_LENGTH(CHAR(50603 USING utf8));
+-------------------------------------+
| CHAR_LENGTH(CHAR(50603 USING utf8)) |
+-------------------------------------+
|                                   1 |
+-------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)