Hello,
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Platonides <Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
MediaWiki supports both ways. Wikipedia still
uses the mysql 4
compatible options, and since mysql chars only support the bmp, it isn't
likely to change.
It all depends on what you choose on install. Currently, the preselected
choice is 'MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary'.
Forgive me if I am not familiar with MySQL5, is the varchar(255)
binary still suffer from the UTF8 BMP problem?
No. The BMP problem is only present with the "MySQL 4.1/5.0 UTF-8" option.
Telling mysql that it is UTF-8 has a few advantages, but in general
using varbinary is good.