I am currently working with the Steam API and I have encountered an issue when trying to save user nicknames to the database. The problem occurs when the nickname contains Russian words or special symbols such as ʊ ϟ ღ 回 ₪. The database is set up to store nicknames as varchar. View Mysql query here
connection.query("
INSERT INTO users
('steamid', 'nickname', 'avatar', 'tradelink')
VALUES
('" + req.user.id + "', '" + req.user._json.personaname + "', '" + req.user._json.avatarfull + "', ' ')
")