Question

I’ve got a problem in searching for characters like ì, í, î and ï or ô and ó etc. are the same.

I tried to use utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci but in both charsets my database thinks Tînker = Tïnker = Tínkér = Tinkèr.

Could somebody tell me which the right charset is to manage all the exiting little dots and dashes in MySQL?

Example:
A user named “Tînker” with id 2 is stored and the result for SELECT id FROM chars WHERE name = 'Tinkèr' LIMIT 1 is 2.

Answer 1

Try adding BINARY before your comparison, like so:

SELECT * FROM chars WHERE BINARY name = '...'