UTF-8 collation problem with greek extended characters

2007-02-05 Thread Sven Fuchs
MySQL 4.1.22 seems to treat the following characters as equal (comparing them as varchar values): U+03B7 (206 183) greek small letter eta U+1F75 (225 189 181) greek small letter eta with accent oxia U+1FC4 (225 191 135) greek small letter eta with accent persispomeni and accent

Re: UTF-8 collation problem with greek extended characters

2007-02-05 Thread Chris White
Sven Fuchs wrote: These characters are stored/retrieved correctly. But they are wrongly regarded the same character by statements like SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE fieldname LIKE '[greek small eta]' The database's character-set is set to UTF-8 Unicode (utf8) and the table's and varchar

Re: UTF-8 collation problem with greek extended characters

2007-02-05 Thread Sven Fuchs
Am 05.02.2007 um 18:11 schrieb Chris White: SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE fieldname LIKE BINARY '[greek small eta]' that *should* ( see disclaimer ;) ) give you what you need Yes, it does. I should have also asked for SELECT DISTINCT fieldname ... in the first place, but looking at your