I have a whole series of author and book/article names for bibliographic entries. I am using whatever character set and collation was given by default when I installed MySQL and imported the data.
I now have trouble ordering those with diacriticals. With no explicit collation nor character sets specified many (most? all?) diacritically marked characters follow the English characters.
My problem is that what I am sorting is a long list of bibliographic entries which are in various European languages including French, Spanish and German.
I have read some of the collation sequence documentation and the use of characters sets and I'm not sure how to proceed.
Would I just define an appropriate character set for the author and title columns?
OR
Would I specify an explicit character set in the select.
These are important fields and secondary key fields for this data. Does that make a difference to the appropriate approach I should take?
Which is more approach is more efficient for a table which has many times more reads than writes.
Help! -Paul
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