[osmosis-dev] Incorrect string value: '\xF0\x90\x8D\x83\xF0\x90...' for column 'v' at row 6

[Simon Nuttall]

Regarding my initial request on this:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmosis-dev/2012-November/001409.html

I have fixed the problem by updating our debian server, which has
changed the MySQL version from 5.1.49-3-log  to 5.1.63-0+squeeze1-log.