MediaWiki:Config-mysql-charset-help/sco

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 appropreeatelie, but it'll naw lat ye store chairacters abuin the [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_character_planes Basic Multilingual Plane].