Comments - Supported Character Sets and Collations
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No, previously utf8mb3 was an alias for utf8. Now (by default, as per the old mode setting), utf8 is an alias for utf8mb3. The intention I believe is at some point to switch off the default old mode setting, so that utf8 will then be an alias for utf8mb4.