Unicode Articles

• Database Upgrade Problems! MySQL 5 → 8 with WordPress My webhost upgraded their database server from MySQL 5 to 8. The upgrade itself went smoothly, but I did find some after-effects on my WordPress sites
• Using Unicode Half-Stars Symbols in Ratings Filled and outlined stars have been in Unicode forever. Half-stars have been available since Unicode 11 (2018), but font support is still spotty. Fortunately you can embed a font on your website that does support the symbols and rate something four and a half stars.
• WordPress 5.7 Upgrade Breaks Posts with Emoji in the Title? Posts with emoji in the title mysteriously stopped displaying anywhere on the blog except the edit form, possibly due to mismatched character sets.

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