Hoi,
The difference is that is actually does sort according to the CLDR.. It
would be really nice if we did that.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 8 June 2010 21:38, Aryeh Gregor
<[email protected]<simetrical%[email protected]>
> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As a person who has labored mightily to make sense of dbpedia, I
> > think that one reason why varbinary is preferable to varchar in many
> > applications in wikimedia is that varchar() string comparisons are case
> > insensitive and varbinary comparisons are case sensitive.
>
> varchar with binary or utf8_bin collation is case-sensitive. It
> doesn't sort as nicely, though. (AFAIK.)
>
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