Your database uses Antelope as the file format. Full UTF-8 support in MySQL and MariaDB requires the Barracuda file format. Please switch to the Barracuda file format. See the documentation MySQL full unicode support for details.
In /etc/my.cnf under [mysqld]
180827 21:43:14 InnoDB: 5.5.59 started; log sequence number 1589339
180827 21:43:14 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown variable 'db_file_format=Barracuda'
#instead set this:
innodb_file_format=Barracuda
You will also need to run mysql_upgrade after changing the format and restarting mysql:
mysql_upgrade -u root -p
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