Historically, MySQL has used utf8 as an alias for utf8mb3 ; beginning with MySQL 8.0.28, utf8mb3 is used exclusively in the output of SHOW statements and in Information Schema tables when this character set is meant. At some point in the future utf8 is expected to become a reference to utf8mb4.
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