Question

Consider this simple MySQL query:

SELECT CHAR(224 USING UTF8)

This isn’t returning anything for me. I would expect it to return à.

I tried specifying a collation:

SELECT CHAR(224 USING UTF8) COLLATE UTF8_BIN

But that didn’t work either.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

How about the following

SET CHARSET utf8;
SET NAMES utf8;
SELECT char(0x00E0 using ucs2);