On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Jaime Crespo <jcrespo(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
MediaWiki
currently doesn't even try to support UTF-8
I thought the installer gave the option to chose between binary and utf8
83-bytes)?
Hmm. Yes, it looks like it does. But if all fields are varbinary, does it
matter? Maybe it should be removed from the installer.
There's also a $wgDBmysql5 configuration setting, which controls whether
MediaWiki does "SET NAMES 'utf8'" or "SET NAMES
'binary'". I don't know
what difference this makes, maybe none since all the columns are varbinary.
innodb_large_preffix cannot be enabled anymore because
it is enabled
(hardcoded) automatically on MySQL 8.0.
That's good, once we raise the supported version that far. Currently it
looks like we still support 5.5.8, which at least has the setting to enable.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation