[Mediawiki-l] Extended character support using utf8-bin collation

[Paul Coghlan]

I am struggling somewhat with some Canadian place names that include
extended characters.

I create a page through the standard MW UI and called it Saint-Étienne but
it arrives into the table (collated utf8-bin) with Saint-Étienne as the
page_title?!

This in turn is not accessible using the page_title to build the URL.

Can anyone tell me where I went wrong? I am hoping to find a way to prevent
this conversion of the characters.

Many thanks,
Paul