On 10/14/05, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
There is however a compatibility issue: MySQL's Unicode support is limited to the 16-bit character range (basic multilingual plane), both for ucs2 and utf8 storage modes.
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It would be relatively simple to disable use of titles and usernames with these high characters; to assess possible impact I did a check through all our current wikis and found 99 extant pages:
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While I understand the reluctance of others to settle for content loss or missing collation, I just wanted to thank you for doing such a thorough analysis of the situation.