Re: unicode case insensitive but diacritics sensitive

2014-11-25 Thread Rik
Not a unicode one that I know of, converting it to latin1 for the grouping works for that particular use case, but I can't make any promises how it'd work on your entire set which may hold any unicode character, a lot of which cannot be converted to latin1: mysql SET NAMES utf8; Query OK, 0 rows

Re: unicode case insensitive but diacritics sensitive

2014-11-25 Thread Martin Mueller
Thanks for that answer. It squares with my solution: have an additional column that has the lower case values of the case sensitive unicode setting. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of English and Classics Northwestern University On 11/25/14 6:48 AM, Rik r...@grib.nl wrote: Not a unicode

unicode case insensitive but diacritics sensitive

2014-11-24 Thread Martin Mueller
Is there a unicode setting on mysql that is case insensitive but diacritics sensitive? Given 'Ete', 'été', 'ete' a group by routine for such a setting would return two values: 'été', 'ete'. I couldn't find it, but I may not have known where to look. Martin Mueller Professor emeritus of