Maciej Jaros wrote:
Strange. I wasn't able to make phpMyAdmin act as expected otherwise then casting page_title as binary. Shell act the same to me but I guess it might be because my system doesn't use latin1.
I guess using this in my script was NOT a good idea: PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND => "SET NAMES utf8" :-).
Hope it helps someone else.
Best, Nux.
It is not for WMF tables. That's like setting $wgDBmysql5 = true; in MediaWiki, which WMF doesn't do.