Thanks for this, Darren.
It turns out that, although I had already explicitly set the character set and
collation for the table I was updating/viewing, that wasn't enough.
I reset the MySQL server variables to use utf8 for the default character set,
then dropped and recreated the database, expl
> The problem in the PHP app is that they don't sort in the correct order. For
> ex., capital E with any accent sorts between A and B.
That's a curious symptom. I've no suggestion, but the other information
you didn't give was:
a) do you have the mbstring extension installed (and if so, what is
