I had the same problem with greek characters. I set field as binary and the problem corrected.
--- National Theater of Greece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &eacgr;&ggr;&rgr;&agr;&psgr;&egr;: > Hi. > I have installed SuSE Linux 8.0 Proffessional and > the MySQL that came with > it. If anyone of you has done the same he must have > realized that many of > the files are quite different than the files of > MySQL that came with the > standard installation described in the maual. > My problem is that I have to change the character > set to greek because all > the 'select' commands including 'order by' do not > display the elements in > the correct order. The MySQL manual doesn't help me > because the SuSE MySQL > deamon starts with 'rcmysql start' (instead 'mysql') > and the > '--default-character-set=greek' parameter isn't > doing anything... > Has anyone else faced the same problem (in any other > language than english)? > I'm quite new in Linux and I may have done some > other mistakes when > installing so I would be very greatfull to anyone > who could help me... > > Achilles > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? &Agr;&pgr;&ogr;&kgr;&tgr;&eeacgr;&sgr;&tgr;&egr; &tgr;&eegr; &dgr;&ohgr;&rgr;&egr;&aacgr;&ngr; @yahoo.gr &dgr;&igr;&egr;&uacgr;&thgr;&ugr;&ngr;&sgr;&eegr; &sgr;&agr;&sfgr; &sgr;&tgr;&ogr; http://www.otenet.gr --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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