https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28541

--- Comment #2 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-04-15 19:02:44 UTC 
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If you need to output binary data in a structured text tree, it should be as
hex strings (as with SHA-1 hashes of image files) or perhaps occasionally as
base64.

It sounds here that something is overriding the category sort key (a
manually-specified piece of text that replaces the page's own title for sorting
purposes in category lists, which if not specified will take the original
title's value) with a normalized binary sort key that's generated from it and
used at a the low-level for sorting.

That should probably not be returned as cmsortkey (a well-known text field),
but as an additional parameter which is specifically a post-processed binary
key.

Probably whatever's changed the sort key is doing it directly in the database
instead of adding a new field?

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