MySQL utf8mb4 unicode (Smiles)

Question

So, today i was faced with the problem:

SQL request:

INSERT INTO `sample` (`lol`) VALUES ('👈');

Response:

Error Code: 1366. Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x91\x88' for column 'lol' at row 1

Collation:

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name LIKE 'character\_set\_%' OR Variable_name LIKE 'collation%';
    +--------------------------+--------------------+
    | Variable_name            | Value              |
    +--------------------------+--------------------+
    | character_set_client     | utf8mb4            |
    | character_set_connection | utf8mb4            |
    | character_set_database   | utf8mb4            |
    | character_set_filesystem | binary             |
    | character_set_results    | utf8mb4            |
    | character_set_server     | utf8mb4            |
    | character_set_system     | utf8               |
    | collation_connection     | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
    | collation_database       | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
    | collation_server         | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
    +--------------------------+--------------------+
    10 rows in set, 1 warning (0.00 sec)

my.ini:

[client]
port=3306
default-character-set = utf8mb4

[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4

[mysqld]
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
character-set-server=utf8mb4

MySQL Workbench Screenshot

Database structure

How to fix it?

Answer 1

The solution was simple. You just need to do SET NAMES 'utf8mb4'