Is there a MySQL performance benchmark to measure the impact of utf8_unicode_ci versus utf8_general_ci?
- by MiniQuark
I read here and there that using the utf8_unicode_ci collation ensures a better treatment of unicode text (for example, it knowns how to expand characters such as 'œ' into 'oe' for searching and ordering) compared to the default utf8_general_ci which basically just strips diacritics. Unfortunately, both sources indicate that utf8_unicode_ci is…