Question

This query:

SELECT customer_id, customer_name FROM customers WHERE isActive = '1' ORDER BY customer_name ASC

Outputs:

+-------------+-----------------------+
| customer_id | customer_name         |
+-------------+-----------------------+
|           1 | Äname                 |
|           2 | Aname                 |
|           3 | Bname                 |
+-------------+-----------------------+

Why does it not sort the special swedish characters, even though I have collation utf8_swedish_ci

SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM myDatabase WHERE name = 'customers';

+-------------+----------------------------+
| Name        | Engine   | Collation       |
+-------------+----------------------------+
| customers   | MyISAM   | utf8_swedish_ci |
+-------------+----------------------------+

I even tried to put the collation in my query:

SELECT * FROM customers WHERE isActive = 1 COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci ORDER BY customer_name ASC

But then I get:

Error Code: 1253. COLLATION 'utf8_swedish_ci' is not valid for CHARACTER SET 'binary'

Answer 1

No idea about the default behaviour, but the correct syntax is:

SELECT customer_id, customer_name
FROM customers
WHERE isActive = '1'
ORDER BY customer_name COLLATE utf8_swedish_ci ASC