On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Ryan Chan <ryanchan404(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, but the binary encoding doesn't use MySQL's UTF-8 support. It
stores the UTF-8 as binary data, so it can store non-BMP characters
even though MySQL's utf8 encoding can't. MySQL 5.5 is planned to add
a utf8mb4 encoding that will support all of Unicode.