On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Sean Pringle springle@wikimedia.org wrote:
However I'd like to hear the historical reasons why MW does everything binary too.
a) Lack of any native UTF-8 support at all before MySQL 4.1 b) Lack of complete native UTF-8 support until MySQL 5.5.something introduced utf8mb4 c) Inertia and backwards compatibility
-- brion