Greg Roach

> Why is Gedcom 5.5 still the standard in Webtrees? Since 2021 (3 years ago) Gedcom 7.0 is published. Unlike other applications, webtrees uses GEDCOm as its internal storage format...

webtrees defines a hierarchy of every possible tag, with a definition for each one. e.g. `INDI:BIRT:DATE` is a "date object". https://github.com/fisharebest/webtrees/blob/2.1.20/app/Gedcom.php#L601-L604 As well as a full list of all the...

You have added a 4-byte UTF-8 character. Probably an emoji or flag. There is currently an open issue (#2950) to convert webtrees from 3-byte UTF-8 to 4-byte UTF-8. This is...

> It might be a stupid suggestion but the problem might come from the history event itself with its title: > “Faits historiques de France 🇫🇷” This should not be...

The data isn't in the database. webtrees attempted to write the data to the database, but MySQL rejected it.

Is this the module that is supplied with webtrees, or is it a third-party one? Do you have any other third-party modules installed?

These facts are shown on the individuals "Facts and events" tab - but only when you use the French language. What version of MySQL/MariaDB do you use?

Can you run this SQL statement for me `SHOW CREATE TABLE wt_session;` Originally, the column `session_data` was `LONGBLOB`. Recently, it changed to `LONGTEXT`. This was to support SQL-Server. A `LONGBLOB`...

OK - as I guessed. Alter this column and it should fix your problem.

> Hi, i was just curious why you dont use utf8mb4_unicode_520_ci when you upgrade the db, isnt that the new standard for international acceptance? Is that because of possible legacy...