The Prefix “UTF” below stands for Unicode Transformation Format

UTF8 – Variable Width 8 Bit Character Encoding based on Unicode

UTF8MB3 – Multi-Byte Using up to 3 Bytes Per Character

UTF8MB4 – Multi-Byte Using up to 4 Bytes Per Character

Latin1 – (ISO 8859-1) Character Encoding based on Unicode

You may be thinking, I will stay in the U.S. so I won’t have to worry about this..

But, sorry, International Commerce makes this a concern everywhere

The Children Of Unicode (Grandkids Of ASCII)