title: What MySQL collation is best for accepting all unicode characters?
body: <p>Our column is currently collated to <code>latin1_swedish_ci</code> and special unicode characters are, obviously, getting stripped out. We want to be able to accept chars such as <code>U+272A ✪</code>, <code>U+2764 ❤</code>, (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters">this wikipedia article</a>) etc. I'm leaning towards <code>utf8_unicode_ci</code>, would this collation handle these and other characters? I don't care about speed as this column isn't an index.</p>
  
  <p>MySQL Version: 5.5.28-1</p>