[TYPO3-dev] MySQL First Letter and Umlauts

[Franz Koch]

Hi Steffen,

> i need a tip for an alphabetic List in mySQL (all in utf8).
> 
> I did this (for drwiki)
> SELECT DISTINCT keyword,ASCII(UPPER(SUBSTRING(keyword,1,1))) letter FROM 
> `tx_drwiki_pages` ORDER BY letter
> 
> This works fine until the keyword starts with Umlaut, e.g. ÄÖÜ
> The strange is that Ä results in ASCII 195, but it is 196 ...
> 
> Now i thout to use replace for that chars like REPLACE(keyword,'Ä', 'Ae'), 
> but i need more than one replace, i don't know how to do that in one query.
> 
> If i change ORDER BY to keyword i get the wrong order (well known in utf8 
> with Umlauts)


I don't have a suggestion, but please check the setup of your newsgroup 
client. The umlauts in your message did not show up correctly. The 
message itself is encoded in ISO-8859-1 while the mail-header seems to 
say nothing and thus it was shown in utf-8 in my case. So all your 
special chars (umlauts) where '?' before I switched to iso encoding. 
It's hard to understand your mails while only seeing question marks in 
the critical parts of your message ;)

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Greetings,
Franz