Re [ic] diacritical signs and search..

[andrey]

> > Hello all.
> > I think I have a problem. I'm using IC 4.6.5, MySQL 3.23.4-alpha, perl
5.005_03.
> > There are troubles when I search within database using diacritical signs
in search
> > query. For example for query 'złoty' the result will be like
"Cannot find
> > 'z\łoty'" (ł means letter "l" with diacritical dash, but not a
row of
> > symbols &,#,3,... both in query and result). Or simply: 'zloty' -
'z\loty'. Maybe
> > anybody has solved this problem already? Or this is a question for
Interchange
> > Internationalization group? And I cannot change IC to newest version
cause some
> > reasons.
>
> Yes, it is.
>
> But: how are they stored in the database ?

I'm not so sophisticated in this but I'll try to explain.. this diacritical
symbols are
stored in the MySQL database as ordinary symbols.. 1 byte per symbol.. it's
char
number >128..
And there is a _feature_. There are diacritical symbols search of which is
correct.