Hi Wes, have you double checked you character set and collation ??
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman//5.5/en/charset-charsets.html
The collation is which determines the sorting order.
Carlos Proal
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Wes James <compte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have mysql 5.1.62-0ubuntu0.11.10.1 installed, but the sort order for
> utf8-unicode doesn't seem to be right. It is sorting some text like this
> (order by title):
>
> !
> ! *`-=[];',./~@#$%^&()_+{}|:"<>?\
> !"
> ![
> !@
> !a
> !A
> !t
> !test
> 'Coal age'
> [
> \--\
> 100 years
>
> when it should be (shouldn't it?):
>
> !
> ! *`-=[];',./~@#$%^&()_+{}|:"<>?\
> !"
> !@
> !A
> 