The multi-byte extension doesn't seem to include one, but it appears that somebody put one together and posted it in the notes on chr(). http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.chr.php#69082 Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341
_____ From: nikos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:41 AM To: Jerry Schwartz; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: select first letters Jerry do you know if there is a php command that returns ascci number of a letter? I'll want to use chr() command because I want to transfer via link the letter to next page but greek characters transformed to something like "%CE%9C". Thank you Jerry Schwartz wrote: It would depend upon the collating sequence for the field. Regards, Jerry Schwartz Global Information Incorporated 195 Farmington Ave. Farmington, CT 06032 860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341 -----Original Message----- From: nikos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:07 AM To: Dus(an Pavlica; mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: select first letters Seems that work in v. 4.1.21 but not in 5.0.27 Thank you Dusan Dus(an Pavlica wrote: I'm not sure, but I think that greek characters are sorted after English chars so try this: SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(title,1) FROM odigos_details WHERE LEFT(title,1) 'z' ORDER BY title HTH, Dusan nikos napsal(a): Hello list. I want to select discinct the first letters of titles in a UTF8 table but only the greek ones. There are both english and greek charakter titles. How can I exclude the english from selection? My table is: CREATE TABLE `odigos_details` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `cat` tinyint(3) default NULL, `territory` tinyint(3) default NULL, `title` varchar(150) default NULL, `story` text, `link` varchar(100) default NULL, `address` varchar(150) default NULL, `tel` varchar(50) default NULL, `fax` varchar(11) default NULL, `photo` varchar(100) default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=6 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 and I run: SELECT DISTINCT LEFT(title,1) FROM odigos_details ORDER BY title witch is working fine. Thank you. Nikos
