[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #60096: Remove back-compat for database servers that don't support utf8mb4

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#60096: Remove back-compat for database servers that don't support utf8mb4
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 Reporter:  johnbillion               |       Owner:  johnbillion
     Type:  task (blessed)            |      Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:  6.6
Component:  Database                  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch has-unit-tests  |     Focuses:
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Comment (by l1nuxjedi):

 Can confirm. utf8mb4 was added in MySQL 5.5, somewhere around a decade
 ago. All versions of MariaDB support it. I have very high hopes that no
 one is still using MySQL 5.1 for anything.

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