Ryan Chan wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> MediaWiki supports both ways. Wikipedia still uses the mysql 4 >> compatible options, and since mysql chars only support the bmp, it isn't >> likely to change. >> It all depends on what you choose on install. Currently, the preselected >> choice is 'MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary'. > > Forgive me if I am not familiar with MySQL5, is the varchar(255) > binary still suffer from the UTF8 BMP problem?
No. The BMP problem is only present with the "MySQL 4.1/5.0 UTF-8" option. > Why not continue use the varbinary option? Telling mysql that it is UTF-8 has a few advantages, but in general using varbinary is good. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
