[GoblinSlayer]

>MySQL is easier for developers

Except that search doesn't work, because all text is in latin1 encoding.

[sgarland]

While obviously I prefer Unicode, latin-1 is perfectly acceptable for most use cases in Western cultures.

What part of searching have you found to not work well using it?

[GoblinSlayer]

The catch is that PHP backend passes strings in utf8.

[homebrewer]

This was never true if you know what you're doing, and hasn't been true since 2018 even if you don't.

[yxhuvud]

Either latin1 or that absolutely horrible max-three-byte utf8 encoding that used to be the only available option for utf8.