[Mediawiki-l] SQL error..

[Rob Church]

On 16/04/07, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at turnstep.com> wrote:
> MySQL has a bug in which it counts bytes, not characters, when
> calculating the key length. Thus, something that works fine in
> a single-byte-per-character character set suddenly fails when you
> switch to a multi-byte character set such as utf-8.

It's not particularly fair to consider it a bug. Sure, it's a pain in
the ass that MySQL's UTF-8 support is very much lacking, but it's not
exactly an undocumented behaviour.


Rob Church