There has been much controversy lately about Sun‘s acquisition by Oracle and how it will affect the future of the widely used open-source RDBMS, MySQL.

WordPress version 2.2 or newer allows the user to define the MySQL database character set and the collation (get familiar with these terms) inside wp-config.php. Today, after upgrading to the newest version of WordPress, I decided to also update this file and append the statement that sets the database encoding to ‘utf8‘. But, as soon [...]