MediaWiki:Config-charset-help/sco

Warnishment: Gif ye uise backwairds-compatible UTF-8 oan MySQL 4.1+, n subsequentlie back up the database wi, it micht destroy aw non-ASCII chairacters, onreversiblie rotin yer backups!

In binarie mode, MediaWiki stores UTF-8 tex til the database in binarie fields. This is mair effeecient than MySQL's UTF-8 mode, n permits ye tae uise the ful range o Unicode chairacters. In UTF-8 mode, MySQL will ken whit chairacter set yer data is in, n can present n convert it appropriatelie, but it will naw lat ye store chairacters abuin the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_character_planes Basic Multilingual Plane].