Question

By using MySql server in Linux Ubuntu through C-Api and Gtk GUI toolkit I have some general problems regarding utf8 sorting and ordering when using croatian characters “čćžšđČĆŽŠĐ”.

My MyISAM tables are created with ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci.

Server returns data but MySql are not aware of croatian letters. They “don’t know” to sort them properly and in case of this characters they “don’t know” to swap lowercase (say “č”) to uppercase “Č”. With all other letters everything works OK.
So, now I have only option to additionally sorting query result with GTK which handles all those cases properly. But (of course) this ist “last” solution I would want.

Any recommendations?

Answer 1

Use utf8_croatian_ci collation, if you’re using mysql-5.6 or above. Discussion here

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