[guard-of-terra]

MySQL was a Norwegian company at the beginning, but you won't believe. It's one of the worst products when it comes to I18N and especially to Unicode. They still kind of store unicode text as a chain of encoded utf8 characters, if I'm not wrong. Their stupid command line utility still defaults to LATIN1 for input and output despite my locale clearly saying .UTF-8. People in their IRC channel still refuse to admit anything of this as a problem.

[jeltz]

The horrible unicode support in MySQL fits well with its general careless attitude toward data integrity.

Minor correction: MySQL was Swedish and InnoDB Finnish.