Subject When utf-8 is handled correctly : Firebird vs Mysql
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UTF-8 is handled correctly by Firebird and Flamerobin You can create a new db with utf-8 charset as default and then you can insert/select
Unicode codepoint U+1F638 a perfectly valid Emoji character

http://flamerobin.blogspot.ro/2014/02/utf-8-is-handled-correctly-by-firebird.html

and then you can compare with mysql case where utf-8 is not utf-8