From 8c985124f2e9dab7b26a8f356f3f006107eb9c9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Vrana <jakub@vrana.cz>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:59:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] MySQL: Use utf8mb4 if available

---
 adminer/drivers/mysql.inc.php | 4 +++-
 changes.txt                   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/adminer/drivers/mysql.inc.php b/adminer/drivers/mysql.inc.php
index 8778bde7..def95e3b 100644
--- a/adminer/drivers/mysql.inc.php
+++ b/adminer/drivers/mysql.inc.php
@@ -292,7 +292,9 @@ if (!defined("DRIVER")) {
 		$connection = new Min_DB;
 		$credentials = $adminer->credentials();
 		if ($connection->connect($credentials[0], $credentials[1], $credentials[2])) {
-			$connection->set_charset("utf8"); // available in MySQLi since PHP 5.0.5
+			$connection->set_charset( // available in MySQLi since PHP 5.0.5
+				version_compare($connection->server_info, "5.5.3") > 0 ? "utf8mb4" : "utf8" // SHOW CHARSET would require an extra query
+			);
 			$connection->query("SET sql_quote_show_create = 1, autocommit = 1");
 			return $connection;
 		}
diff --git a/changes.txt b/changes.txt
index 6680d5ae..50b8f46f 100644
--- a/changes.txt
+++ b/changes.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Adminer 4.1.1-dev:
 Fix reading routine column collations
+MySQL: Use utf8mb4 if available
 
 Adminer 4.1.0 (released 2014-04-18)
 Provide size of all databases in the overview