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Asked: 2026-05-18T20:16:42+00:00

Basically, I have a problem with replace() function in MySQL (via phpMyAdmin). One table

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Basically, I have a problem with replace() function in MySQL (via phpMyAdmin). One table got messed and some special characters (+ empty space after it) appeared inside a word. So all I wanted to do was:

UPDATE myTable SET columnName =
(replace(columnName, ‘Å house’,
‘house’))

But MySQL returns 

0 row(s) affected. ( Query took 0.0107 sec )

The same is when I try to replace foreign towns with special characters in the name of a town (Swedish town, German town, etc.)

Am I doing something wrong???

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  1. Editorial Team
    Å house

    Is likely to actually be:

    Å house

    That is, with a U+00A0 Non Break Space character and not a normal space. Of course normally you cannot see the difference, but a string replace can and won’t touch it.

    This was probably originally just a single non-breaking-space character, that has been mangled through a classic UTF-8-read-as-ISO-8859-1 encoding screw-up. Other non-ASCII characters in your database are likely to have been similarly messed up.

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