title: MySQL error: "Column 'columnname' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index"
body: <p>Recently I changed a bunch of columns to utf8_general_ci (the default UTF-8 collation) but when attempting to change a particular column, I received the MySQL error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Column 'node_content' cannot be part of FULLTEXT index
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In looking through docs, it appears that MySQL has a problem with FULLTEXT indexes on some multi-byte charsets such as UCS-2, but that it should work on UTF-8.</p>
  
  <p>I'm on the latest stable MySQL 5.0.x release (5.0.77 I believe).</p>