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Re:Unicode support in MySQL is... by Svip on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:35AM (#7317841)
This is also the reason why MediaWiki have been using binary blobs for text data in their MySQL database. And have been for years.
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Re:Unicode support in MySQL is... by jamroom on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:11PM (#7320801)
Might not be any different, but I believe MediaWiki runs on MariaDB:

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/22/wikipedia-adopts-mariad...

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Re:Unicode support in MySQL is... by jmnicolas on Friday February 28, 2014 @09:40AM (#7318875)
At that point they should really consider switching to another DB imo.
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Re:Unicode support in MySQL is... by Svip on Friday February 28, 2014 @10:05AM (#7319021)
Perhaps. But I think they are keeping MySQL support both for legacy reasons and compatibility reasons. You could also argue they should stop implementing it in PHP, if they are willing to sacrifice its ease of install.

But MediaWiki does support other DBs, such as Postgresql and Sqlite.

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