[Pdns-users] gmysql: Is latin1 really necessary? What are the consequences of using UTF-8?

[Nicholas Williams]

I thought domain names have supported unicode characters for several years now.

> On Oct 30, 2020, at 7:53 AM, Frank Louwers <frank at tembo.be> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I guess the main reason why it's latin1, is that DNS records are supposed to be ascii, certainly not utf-8. Also probably the "lowest common denominator" between various (My)SQL versions, flavours etc.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
>> On 30 Oct 2020, at 13:43, Nicholas Williams via Pdns-users <pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com <mailto:pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Nobody has any thoughts here?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Nick
>> 
>>> On Oct 25, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Nicholas Williams <nicholas at nicholaswilliams.net <mailto:nicholas at nicholaswilliams.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In the past 4-5 years, I’ve gotten into the habit of defaulting all MySQL tables to this:
>>> 
>>>   DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci
>>> 
>>> Looking at the latest PowerDNS schema (I’m about to start up a second environment), I noticed that the entire schema has this:
>>> 
>>>   CHARACTER SET ‘latin1'
>>> 
>>> I did some searching through the archives, but couldn’t readily find an answer about this: Is there a specific reason why LATIN-1 was chosen and must be used? What are the consequences of using UTF-8 instead of LATIN-1?
>>> 
>>> One consequence that I know of is that `records.content` can’t be VARCHAR(64000) and also be UTF-8, so it must either be made explicitly LATIN-1, or it must be shortened to VARCHAR(16383), or it must be converted to a TEXT column. Are there are negative consequences of making it a TEXT column?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Nick
>> 
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