Дана Friday 15 May 2009 11:47:56 Tisza Gergő написа: > What are the chances that we get decent MySQL collation in the close future > (say, next few years)? Bug 164 was opened 5 years ago, there is no point in > waiting another 5 years for database-level collations (and we do get them, > the system proposed in this thread can be removed without any > complication). Waiting forever will only result in people implementing the > same solution with DEFAULTSORT, either by hand (huge waste of resources) or > with bots (even more expensive than a built-in algorithm).
Given that WMF is one of the largest and most visible MySQL users, wouldn't it be possible to push this a bit? Perhaps even help with developer time (that would otherwise be spent on working around this problem)? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
