fix: Add support for multibyte strings #12810

Job	Run time
Setup PHP Version for Code Coverage	1s
Others (8.4) / Sanity Tests	2m 18s
Others (8.2) / Sanity Tests	3m 39s
Others (8.3) / Sanity Tests	2m 36s
Others (8.1) / Sanity Tests	2m 39s
CacheLive (8.1) / Cache Live Tests	2m 4s
CacheLive (8.2) / Cache Live Tests	2m 30s
CacheLive (8.3) / Cache Live Tests	2m 20s
CacheLive (8.4) / Cache Live Tests	2m 3s
SeparateProcess (8.1) / tests	3m 28s
DatabaseLive (8.1, MySQLi, 5.7) / tests	3m 11s
SeparateProcess (8.2) / tests	4m 6s
SeparateProcess (8.3) / tests	3m 35s
SeparateProcess (8.4) / tests	3m 12s
DatabaseLive (8.1, MySQLi, 8.0) / tests	3m 47s
DatabaseLive (8.1, OCI8, 8.0) / tests	7m 21s
DatabaseLive (8.1, Postgre, 8.0) / tests	2m 43s
DatabaseLive (8.1, SQLite3, 8.0) / tests	2m 30s
DatabaseLive (8.1, SQLSRV, 8.0) / tests	4m 11s
DatabaseLive (8.2, MySQLi, 8.0) / tests	4m 58s
DatabaseLive (8.2, OCI8, 8.0) / tests	7m 25s
DatabaseLive (8.2, Postgre, 8.0) / tests	3m 39s
DatabaseLive (8.2, SQLSRV, 8.0) / tests	5m 28s
DatabaseLive (8.2, SQLite3, 8.0) / tests	3m 15s
DatabaseLive (8.3, MySQLi, 8.0) / tests	4m 23s
DatabaseLive (8.3, OCI8, 8.0) / tests	5m 59s
DatabaseLive (8.3, Postgre, 8.0) / tests	2m 57s
DatabaseLive (8.3, SQLite3, 8.0) / tests	2m 44s
DatabaseLive (8.3, SQLSRV, 8.0) / tests	4m 14s
DatabaseLive (8.4, MySQLi, 8.0) / tests	4m 8s
DatabaseLive (8.4, OCI8, 8.0) / tests	5m 58s
DatabaseLive (8.4, Postgre, 8.0) / tests	2m 24s
DatabaseLive (8.4, SQLite3, 8.0) / tests	2m 36s
DatabaseLive (8.4, SQLSRV, 8.0) / tests	4m 28s
Upload coverage results to Coveralls / coveralls	40s
	2h 3m 30s

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