Part of #378; copied from https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/2887#issuecomment-405...
I was playing around with D8 core and contrib media-related modules, and this specific feature drew my attention:

...so, media types have this "Field mapping" feature (the screenshot above is for the "Image" media type), which allows you to store metadata information to entity fields. I know we are a long way from anything like that (or are we?), and I don't wanna derail this issue here, but I thought that we could perhaps be using this to be automatically storing EXIF data to such a field (that we could be hiding by default). This could help us retain the EXIF data across any edit operations I believe.
Just a thought.
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https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues/7018 Feel free to edit as you see fit. KR Mike
MySQL Database 4-byte UTF-8 support
Thanks. Would you please file an issue at https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues? The idea there is to say that a site that uses a DB prefix defined in the simplified database...
MySQL Database 4-byte UTF-8 support
Yes, I added the port and driver lines and reloaded the website and the Status Report no longer has the error. I am unable to check the conversion link as I can no longer see it.
MySQL Database 4-byte UTF-8 support