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Asked: 2026-06-13T11:06:55+00:00

How would I get MySQL to be more strict with character matching? A quick

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How would I get MySQL to be more strict with character matching?

A quick example of what I mean, say I have a table with a single column `name`. In this column, I have two names: ‘Jorge’ and ‘Jorgé” The only difference between these names is the ´ over the e. If I run the query SELECT * FROM table WHERE name = 'Jorge', it will return

+--------+
|  name  |
+--------+
| Jorge  |
| Jorgé  |
+--------+

and if I run the query SELECT * FROM table WHERE name = 'Jorgé', it returns the same result table. How would I set MySQL to be more strict in that so that it would not return both names?

Thanks ahead.

Quick Edit: I’m using the UTF-8 character encoding

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to make sure that no similar characters (like e and é) are considered the same, you should use the utf8_bin collation on that column. I assume that you’re using utf8_general_ci now, which will consider some similar characters to be the same. utf8_bin only matches on the exact same characters.

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