Angering the Unicode Gods
You know you’re in for a great day with your database suddenly and inexplicably decides to choke on all the Japanese text stored in it.
Had this happened on the day when I upgraded all the applications on the server, this wouldn’t have been so unexpected. Had this happened immediately after I restarted MySQL, this wouldn’t have been so unexpected. As far as I can tell, no one did much of anything with the system last night.
So anyway, I’ll see if I can figure out what went horribly wrong. Hopefully we can get things back on track with a minimum of fuss.
Random Japanese Text
猫が大好きです。
Update
Reloading tables from the nightly backup seems to be the right answer. Damn computer gremlins.
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