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When I Import Mysql from local server to web ser it is showng me error

1115 - Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4' in Creating wordpress wp_comment table

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS  `wp_commentmeta` (
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) ENGINE = INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET = utf8mb4 AUTO_INCREMENT =1;
 #1115 - Unknown character set: 'utf8mb4'

My mysql version is

Version information: 4.0.4, latest stable version: 4.4.10 (local version)

Version information: 4.0.10.7, latest stable version: 4.4.10( server version)

Please help me to solve out the error

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    Either update your server's (frankly ancient) MySQL to 5.5.3 (at least) or edit the import file, replacing all instances of utf8mb4 with utf8.
    – bonger
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 12:16
  • How do you create your import file? If you use phpMyAdmin then replace compatibility mode NONE ( default ) with MYSQL40. No manual editing of the resulting file will be necessary. If you use a database backup plugin which does not support compatibilty modes then find the call to mysqldump command and add --compatible=mysql40 parameter to it.
    – Frank P. Walentynowicz
    Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 21:08
  • Of note, utf8mb4 was introduced to fix security issues and introduce support for emoji
    – Tom J Nowell ♦
    Commented Oct 26, 2015 at 14:14

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WordPress does not support MySQL 4 :

To run WordPress your host just needs a couple of things:

MySQL version 5.0 or greater (recommended: MySQL 5.5 or greater)

https://wordpress.org/about/requirements/

While the utf8mb4 encoding is recent change and you might work around it, overall you still need compatible MySQL version.

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Your version does not support that character set, I believe it was 5.5.3 that introduced it. You should upgrade your mysql to the version you used to export this file.

The error is then quite clear: you set a certain character set in your code, but your mysql version does not support it, and therefore does not know about it.

According to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/charset-unicode-utf8mb4.html :

utf8mb4 is a superset of utf8

so maybe there is a chance you can just make it utf8, close your eyes and hope, but that would depend on your data, and I'd not recommend it.

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simply open your exported database in a text editor and replace all utf8mb4 with utf8 and export after. just be critical to choose the right character set when exporting databases.

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