No, it&#x27;s not related. This is about escaping strings in queries, it should not have anything to do with whether programmers thought about all the things that a string can contain or not. User data inside queries absolutely must be escaped at all times, if not that&#x27;s not a falsehood in belief, it&#x27;s a bug.<p>Conversely, when a string is properly escaped, you expect the DB <i>not to die</i> on valid input. Which MySQL&#x2F;MariaDB totally does, by the way, for example when your users submit emojis into the database. Now <i>that</i> would be a falsehood programmers believe about strings, or names if you will.