I've recently started to use accented characters in MySQL-- nothing extremely fancy, just the usual things in the ISO-8859-1 character set, mainly just the vowels with acute, grave, circumflex, and umlauts.
Originally, everything was working fine; things got entered correctly, and I could search for them and find them regardless of the presence of an accent. Doing SELECTs confirmed this; "SELECT "[e-acute]" = "e";" would return "1", and so forth. However, I soon learned that a-umlaut, o-umlaut, and u-umlaut do not in fact match a, o, and u respectively. This makes it very difficult to find things that might have these characters. I can't find anything too relevant in the manual--there's section 4.6.1.1 on the German character set that says that the accents are removed from everything execept upper- and lower-case umlauted a, o, and u. However, I didn't start my mysqld with --default-character-set=latin1_de, so I don't think it's relevant to me. Can anyone explain this to me, and more to the point, tell me what I need to do to get the umlauted a, o, and u to match the plain variety? Thanks. Jesse Sheidlower SQL, query --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
