Error 1366: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x8A\x0AC…' for column 'text_body' at row 1 I'm trying to store email content in mysql.

But i'm facing errors while trying to insert the row.

I have done some research and changed the column type to utf8mb4. But I'm still facing the problem.

Can someone tell me what i'm missing?

This is the error I'm getting

Error 1366: Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x9F\x98\x8A\x0AC...' for column 'text_body' at row 1 

This is the character set of my table DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci
The CHARACTER SET of the column needs to be utf8mb4.  Please provide SHOW CREATE TABLE for confirmation.

Also, the connection needs to be utf8mb4 (or UTF-8, depending on the client language).  Let's see the connection parameters.