Hoi, The difference is that is actually does sort according to the CLDR.. It would be really nice if we did that. Thanks, GerardM
On 8 June 2010 21:38, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com<simetrical%2bwikil...@gmail.com> > wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Paul Houle <p...@ontology2.com> wrote: > > As a person who has labored mightily to make sense of dbpedia, I > > think that one reason why varbinary is preferable to varchar in many > > applications in wikimedia is that varchar() string comparisons are case > > insensitive and varbinary comparisons are case sensitive. > > varchar with binary or utf8_bin collation is case-sensitive. It > doesn't sort as nicely, though. (AFAIK.) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l