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Asked: 2026-05-16T05:37:18+00:00

When creating my SQLite database in Android I set the database locale – db.setLocale(new

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When creating my SQLite database in Android I set the database locale – db.setLocale(new Locale(“cz_CZ”)). This is a Czech locale.

A SELECT statement works and takes the locale into account, for example:

SELECT * from table WHERE name='sctzy' COLLATE LOCALIZED

Will find the entry ‘ščťžý’.

But using LIKE will fail:

SELECT * from table WHERE name LIKE '%sctzy%' COLLATE LOCALIZED

No row is returned.

BTW. There is no java.text.Normalized class in Android. I thought I could make a second column with a normalized text, stripped of special characters, which would be used for searching – but I am missing a class or way how to normalize the String.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you had a look at the SQLite documentation for LIKE? It has come information about non ASCII characters and a bug. Maybe Android has an older version of SQLite installed where this is a problem.

    I think the second normalised column might be your best option unfortunately.

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