Question

I managed to insert special characters into a table by setting the charset with

CHARSET=utf8;

Thing is, when I run the following query on the table

SELECT * FROM table WHERE word = 'francais';

it returns both “francais” and “français”!

This is not quite desirable for my situation.. I have no idea why it does this because they’re just different…

Can anyone tell me how to avoid this? Would be much appreciated.

lordstyx

Answer 1

Try using collation, e.g.,

select *
from table
where word = 'francais' collate utf8_bin;