> If I were to take a wild guess I would say that the lower 7 bits of ö > and ] match. Which would mean that this isn't really text, ie 7-bit > ASCII, but really BINARY data. Which means either you need "create > table simple (name varchar(255) BINARY NOT NULL);" or "create table > simple (name tinyblob NOT NULL);"
Jim, Thanks for the suggestion, but I already checked that and got no joy -- ö = 0xf6 = 11110110 ] = 0x5d = 01011101 Philip > -----Original Message----- > From: James Housley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: den 26 mars 2002 18:06 > To: Philip Semanchuk > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: SELECT w/LIKE on Swedish character ö finds ], why? > > > Philip Semanchuk wrote: > > > > Hi everyone, > > I am having a little trouble with searching for Swedish > characters. When I > > SELECT using LIKE I get matches that I do not expect. I > have created a > > simple test case that is entirely reproduced below. To > summarize, I insert > > one row into a single-column table that contains the right > square bracket > > character (ASCII 0x5d). When I search for the Swedish > letter ö (ISO-8859-1 > > 0xf6) I find the row containing the right bracket. > > > > We're running RedHat 7.2 with nothing fancy added in as > we're Linux novices > > and just playing around with the system to see how it > works. MySQL -V > > produces this: > > mysql Ver 11.15 Distrib 3.23.41, for redhat-linux-gnu (i386) > > > > Here's my test: > > > > mysql> create database swedish_character_test; > > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) > > > > mysql> use swedish_character_test; > > Database changed > > mysql> create table simple (name varchar(255) NOT NULL); > > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) > > > > mysql> insert into simple (name) values (']'); > > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) > > > > mysql> select name from simple where name like '%ö%'; > > +------+ > > | name | > > +------+ > > | ] | > > +------+ > > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > > > I'd appreciate any help understanding why ö = ] in this case. > > > > If I were to take a wild guess I would say that the lower 7 bits of ö > and ] match. Which would mean that this isn't really text, ie 7-bit > ASCII, but really BINARY data. Which means either you need "create > table simple (name varchar(255) BINARY NOT NULL);" or "create table > simple (name tinyblob NOT NULL);" > > Give thoses a try. > > Jim > -- > /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign . > \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . > X - NO Word docs in e-mail . > / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power to Serve > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.TheHousleys.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.SimTel.Net > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Progress (n) : What led from smart users in front of dumb terminals to > dumb users in front of smart terminals. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
