Hi Karen,
I like to use NaviCat for MySQL and I recreated my database using the
default collation, which did not add a binary collation. I don't see
an option in the database creation menu for utf8_general_ci in NaviCat
though.
I just need a chance to repopulate the DB and I'll try my search
again. Thank you very much for helping! I really appreciate your time.
Brandon
On Apr 9, 3:54 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Here's the output from the 'portfolio_workcategory' table create:
>
> > -- Table "portfolio_workcategory" DDL
>
> > CREATE TABLE `portfolio_workcategory` (
> > `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
> > `title` varchar(30) collate utf8_bin NOT NULL,
> > `position` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL,
> > PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
> > ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=4 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
> > COLLATE=utf8_bin;
>
> > I'm assuming the "COLLATE=utf8_bin" is what's causing the problem?
>
> Yes, collations that end in _bin are binary, and that's what is making
> Django's LIKE search case-sensitive. (Django's MySQL backend assumes a
> default non-case-sensitive collation is in effect.) If you want to be able
> to do case-insensitive searching with Django code then you want a collation
> like utf8_general_ci. You mentioned before that when you created the
> database you specified a default unicode character set, but nothing else.
> That would seem to imply your database server has a default collation set to
> utf8_bin, otherwise I don't understand how that collation got attached to
> your table and its title column. Can you recreate your database specifying
> COLLATE=utf8_general_ci?
>
> Karen
>
> > Thanks,
> > Brandon
>
> > On Apr 9, 3:14 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi Karen,
>
> > > > Here's an example of one of the models in question:
>
> > > > class WorkCategory(models.Model):
> > > > title = models.CharField(max_length = 30)
> > > > position = models.PositiveSmallIntegerField()
>
> > > > def __unicode__(self):
> > > > return self.title
>
> > > > class Admin:
> > > > ordering = ('position',)
> > > > search_fields = ('title')
>
> > > > class Meta:
> > > > verbose_name_plural = 'Work Categories'
>
> > > > When I created the database, I specified the default character set as
> > > > unicode, but other than that, I haven't made any changes to the
> > > > database. I actually haven't even touched it directly, only through
> > > > the Python code in Django.
>
> > > Does your database server have a default binary collation defined? From
> > a
> > > mysql command prompt, enter "use your_database_name" then "show
> > variables
> > > like 'coll%;' to see the default collations for the connection,
> > database,
> > > and server. For good measure you can look at the output of "show create
> > > table your_table_name;" to see if there are binary collations associated
> > > with the table's columns.
>
> > > If none of those show that you've somehow got a binary collation
> > associated
> > > with this table, then I'm baffled.
>
> > > Karen
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