On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 17:57, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
Hmm, okay. Should I be using character set and
collation "binary"?
Yes. The main problem with using UTF-8 for the tables is that
MySQL only supports Unicode characters U+0000 .. U+FFFF.
Other characters are silently removed, which leads to problems
with duplicate page titles etc.
See
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-unicode.html