A comment about 'Invalid UTF-8 data'

[jhundley9109]

My guess as to why you were running into invalid UTF-8 data when doing your conversion has to do with MySQL only storing 3 bytes of unicode in the native UTF8 character set. If you were to use utf8mb4 instead of UTF8, you may not have ran into this issue.

This is just a note for the author and/or any body who, like me, is struggling with UTF-8 data stored in a latin1 column.

[nicjansma]

Thanks @jhundley9109!