> A am a bit shocked that it is a "feature" when å is the same as a in > MySQL. That sounds just plain wrong to me. If it had been so for > utf8_some_special_ci, fine, but not for general (the default default) > collations. To me that would be like PHP saying (1 == 1.2) is true > because it is "close enough". :) Very strange but I guess they must > have some very good reason for it.
It's not really the same thing and yes, there's a very good reason. Most languages, diacritics are meant to alter the pronunciation of a letter. In other words, e, é and è are the same "letter" but have different pronunciations because of the accent marks. Therefore, when a French person does a search for a word, they might simply type in "ecole" but they fully expect école to show up. Another example, I live in a city known as Orléans but has been known as Orleans (note the lack of accent) for a number of years (they only recently added the accent back in where it belongs). However, a search for Orleans should bring up either result. Also, collations determine how content is ordered when results are returned. Take Ecole A, ecole B, École C and école D. How should that be ordered? The _ci indicates case-insensitive so we get the order we expect (as I've listed). It'd be pretty confusing to do a search and get ecole B, Ecole A, [the rest of the latin character results], école D, École C. I hope that explains it a little better. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
