match special characters from input to stored in database

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I saved some German characters on the database by entity (eg. föo => föo).

Now I have a query that search for a match just using LIKE %search_word%. The search_word will probably be an input containing special German characters. Can you suggest of the most efficient way to compare my search_word to the one stored in the database?

Huge thanks.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 16 '12 at 07:36

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use the same entity conversion at search_word before putting it in the query.

or you can stop saving the data whit entity conversion, and do the converstion when you need them insted

answered Jul 16 '12 at 07:36

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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Perhaps this is a valid answer already: MySQL DB selects records with and without umlauts. e.g: '.. where something = FÖÖ'

You have to ensure that the string encoding (e.g. UTF8) and your (MySQL) DB charset do match. Look at what collations do and if utf8_bin can help.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:56

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answered Jul 16 '12 at 07:39

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match special characters from input to stored in database

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