Title: CLI: utf8mb4 convertion
Author: WordPress VIP Documentation
Published: March 16, 2021
Last modified: August 5, 2025

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 3. CLI: utf8mb4 convertion

# CLI: utf8mb4 convertion

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 16 March 2021

19:07:17 GMT+0000

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We updated the way the latin1 -> utf8mb4 conversion command retrieves the current
DB name to utilize this command on more environments.

[https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2028](https://github.com/Automattic/vip-go-mu-plugins/pull/2028)