I have a java system communicating that serves as a gateway to different systems (java, mainframe, etc). This java system receives a request using, for example, utf8 and converts it to the encoding...

So I'm using a wrapper to fetch user data from instagram. I want to select the display names for users, and store them in a MYSQL database. I'm having issues inserting some of the display names, de...

What are the advantages/disadvantages between using utf8 as a charset against using latin1? If UTF can support more chars and is used consistently wouldn't it always be the better choice? Is there ...