Re: Issue with em dash character

2015-06-03 Thread Peter Brawley
On 2015-06-03 2:55 PM, Robert Voliva wrote: We're finding that, when working with the em dash character, the LEFT and LENGTH functions don't work well together. This query shows trying to strip off the last character from a string containing an em dash: mysql> select LEFT('031492349−0002,', LEN

Re: Issue with em dash character

2015-06-03 Thread Rik Wasmus
LENGTH() measures bytes, CHAR_LENGTH() measures characters. There's little use for LENGTH() for anything else then raw bytes. On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Robert Voliva wrote: > information_schema.columns reports a character_set_name of 'utf8' and a > collation_name of 'utf8_general_ci' > > O

Re: Issue with em dash character

2015-06-03 Thread Robert Voliva
information_schema.columns reports a character_set_name of 'utf8' and a collation_name of 'utf8_general_ci' On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski wrote: > > Is this a bug? If it's a "feature", what could we do instead to get >> around >> this issue? >> > > Is your column set

Re: Issue with em dash character

2015-06-03 Thread Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski
Is this a bug? If it's a "feature", what could we do instead to get around this issue? Is your column set to unicode? -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe:http://lists.mysql.com/mysql