Thread:Project:Support desk/tables.sql and database default character set question

I'm trying to script mediawiki setup on my linux desktop, bypassing the web setup and using maintenance/tables.sql

In doing that I bumped into following

after some hunting I deduced this is because my database default character set was set to binary. Dropping the db, and recreating it with

enabled the full text index creation for si_title.

I wonder if the tables.sql gets used by the web based creation? How does it get around this issue if the default character set is binary?