Unicode surrogate pair as utf8 in MariaDB/MySQL 5.5: utf8mb4

[mysqld]
character-set-server=utf8mb4
character-set-client-handshake = FALSE
collation-server = utf8mb4_unicode_ci
[mysql]
default-character-set = utf8mb4
[client]
default-character-set = utf8mb4


reference:
http://mths.be/utf8mb4
http://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=15423