#5958 closed (invalid)
mention not to use utf8_bin with MySQLdb in documentation/unicode
| Reported by: | Till Backhaus | Owned by: | nobody | 
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | dev | 
| Severity: | Keywords: | encoding utf8 unicode str error string mysql mysqldb | |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no | 
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no | 
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no | 
Description
For those users who are not that familiar with databases and their encoding it would be great if the documentation mentioned that you should not use utf8_bin as collation.
Change History (2)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → invalid | 
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| Status: | new → closed | 
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
For the record, the reason it was suggested not to use utf8_bin is because of an outstanding bug when this collation is used with mysqldb (#2335).
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Why don't we want utf8_bin as it's case-sensitive (instead of utf8_general_ci which isn't)?