Hey everyone,

can't figure this one out, might be easy for one of you.



This is the query:
(SELECT 'Neue Gruppe' AS gruppenstring, '-1' AS gruppe_id)
UNION ALL
(SELECT CONCAT( gruppe, ' (', kommentar, ')' ) AS gruppenstring, gruppe_id
FROM tbl_gruppen
ORDER BY gruppe);



This error message is returned on the php website:
Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE) and 
(utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation 'UNION'



There is no error message (query executes successfully) in phpmyadmin or when 
connecting by mysql.



Following query always executes successfully (no long term solution though):
(SELECT utf8_'Neue Gruppe' AS gruppenstring, utf8_'-1' AS gruppe_id)
UNION ALL
(SELECT CONCAT( gruppe, ' (', kommentar, ')' ) AS gruppenstring, gruppe_id
FROM tbl_gruppen
ORDER BY gruppe);



This is the output of
mysql> show variables like "%character%"; show variables like "%collation%";
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| Variable_name            | Value                      |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
| character_set_client     | utf8                       |
| character_set_connection | utf8                       |
| character_set_database   | utf8                       |
| character_set_results    | utf8                       |
| character_set_server     | utf8                       |
| character_set_system     | utf8                       |
| character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
+--------------------------+----------------------------+
7 rows in set (0.00 sec)

+----------------------+-----------------+
| Variable_name        | Value           |
+----------------------+-----------------+
| collation_connection | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_database   | utf8_general_ci |
| collation_server     | utf8_general_ci |
+----------------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)



This is my.cnf
...
[mysql]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqladmin]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlcheck]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqldump]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlimport]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[mysqlshow]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets
default-character-set=utf8

[myisamchk]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets

[myisampack]
character-sets-dir=/usr/share/mysql/charsets

# use [safe_mysqld] with mysql-3
[mysqld_safe]
err-log                                         = /var/log/mysql/mysql.err

# add a section [mysqld-4.1] or [mysqld-5.0] for specific configurations.
[mysqld]
character-set-server            = utf8
default-character-set           = utf8
...



Probably easy, but help please :)
Florian

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