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Difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_bin

What does each encoding mean?

asantos

5:27 pm on Apr 27, 2006 (gmt 0)

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What's the difference between utf8_general_ci and utf8_bin? What does each of that encondings mean?

siMKin

7:22 am on May 11, 2006 (gmt 0)

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they're just different character sets, containing different characters, one probably a bit faster than the other.