Re: utf8 options under Mysql

2016-05-05 Thread Hal.sz S.ndor
2016/04/22 04:49 ... Jigal van Hemert: It works for a lot of Western European languages very well, but in some cases there are problems. For Asian languages there are a lot more problems. For example, 'ß' isn't considered the same as 'ss'. Well, the former is an sz-ligature, and the latter is a d

Re: utf8 options under Mysql

2016-04-22 Thread Jigal van Hemert
Hi, On 22/04/2016 04:50, Martin Mueller wrote: MySQL has a bewildering variety of unicode collation choices. Most of them are language specific, but what is the difference between "utf8-general-ci", "utf8-unicode-ci", and "utf8-unicode-520-ci." Do they differ in the range of characters they ca

utf8 options under Mysql

2016-04-21 Thread Martin Mueller
MySQL has a bewildering variety of unicode collation choices. Most of them are language specific, but what is the difference between "utf8-general-ci", "utf8-unicode-ci", and "utf8-unicode-520-ci." Do they differ in the range of characters they can handle or is it just a matter of the cort order