[TYPO3-dev] MySQL First Letter and Umlauts

[Steffen Kamper]

> 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 ;)
>
> --
> Greetings,
> Franz

sry for that, i try same message with utf8 (unfortunally OE does not give me 
a default setup for charset, i know - M$, but it's easy...):

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)

Any suggestions?

thx, vg
Steffen