Added comment, added changelog entry.

Author: gochujang-c

doc/changelog.md

@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+# v0.14.3 -> v0.14.4
+
+## Enhancements
+
+- Use utf8mb4 as default encoding in order to support the full unicode range
+
+
 # v0.14.2 -> v0.14.3
 
 ## Tech Preview New API

src/dba/AbstractModelFactory.class.php

@@ -855,6 +855,8 @@ public function getDB($test = false) {
     }
     else {
       global $CONN;
+      // The utf8mb4 is here to force php to connect with that encoding, so you can save emoji's or other non ascii chars (specifically, unicode characters outside of the BMP) into the database. 
+      // If you are running into issues with this line, we could make this configurable.
       $dsn = 'mysql:dbname=' . $CONN['db'] . ";host=" . $CONN['server'] . ";port=" . $CONN['port'] . ";charset=utf8mb4";
       $user = $CONN['user'];
       $password = $CONN['pass'];