MySQL treats ÅÄÖ as AAO?

Question

These two querys gives me the exact same result:

select * from topics where name=\'Harligt\';
select * from topics where name=\'Härligt\';

Answer 1

you want to check your collation settings, collation is the property that sets which characters are identical.

these 2 pages should help you

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-general.html

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-mysql.html