Hello,
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)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? Why not continue use
the varbinary option?