Hi,
However MediaWiki, when $wgDBmysql5 is off, is
charset-agnostic to
MySQL
and just grabs and sends UTF-8 strings without caring what MySQL
thinks
they are. That may, or may not, be the same as what MySQL thinks is
UTF-8 internally.
Current problem is that it specifies latin1 character set, where it
should be using 'varbinary'/'blob'.
JDBC standards ask to associate proper character set with anything
what is text.
No charset conversion should happen for binary fields.
Thanks, MySQL!
:-)
For this reason I recommend sticking with MySQL 4.0 if
you want to
work
with Wikimedia data...
Or actually updating schema not to use charset-enabled types anywhere.
Cheers,
--
Domas Mituzas --
http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]