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.)
>
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