UTF8 string comparisons in MySQL

Question

We have issues with utf8-string comparisons in MySQL 5, regarding case and accents :

from what I gathered, what MySQL implements collations by considering that \"gro

Answer 1

Use collation that considers these characters to be distinct. Maybe utf8_bin (it's case sensitive, since it does binary comparison of characters)

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/charset-unicode-sets.html