what is collation usage for database ? well for html utf-8 i know a bit, like for displaying other language type. but whats for in database ? im useing latin-1 ( default ), my friends told me that to use utf insted, when i ask why, they just dont know and said, others use it. so im questioning what does collation reall...
I am creating a web base application using PHP and MySQL. I want it to be able to save any kind of user input characters, both English and non-English characters like Arabic or Japanese at the same time. What should I do to achieve that? ...
HI There, i am developing for European languages and also for English, the string are stored as NVARCHAR in sql server 2005. so, which is the best collation to be used is "Latin1_General_CI_AS" covers all? there are variations as well like Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS,Latin1_General_BIN,Latin1_General_BIN2 etc comments\suggestions apprec...
Hi, suddenly we have to save kanji (Japanese) in a couple of columns of two or three tables. I have tried to save to the db using the current collation which is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. However, I just get '?' for each character. I am going to need to change the collation to Japanese_CI_AS I presume. My question is can I change the ...
Hi guys, I'm working at a web site search which uses Sql server 2008 express edition. I have 'Books' table which has a field named 'Title' where there are titles containing romanian (latin) characters. Well, if the user inserts a word like: 'casa' in the search field and i have a title in db like: 'test casă test' i want to show that ...
I am developing a multi-tenant application in .NET with SQL 2008. Each tenant can specify their own language. For instance, a Chinese company may use my application and want all of their data sorted and searchable via Chinese characters. And a German company may use my application and want all of their data sorted and searchable via G...
I have a database table in Sql Server 2008 R2 which contains data stored in multiple languages including English, Swedish, Hungarian and German. The table uses the Latin1_General_CI_AS collation. The full text catalog has the table assigned to it with an index on the multi-language column. I have two problems: In the catalog properti...
In a Section Indexed UITableView how do you make the title of the section chosen (by pressing the Section Index) align *not* at the very top of the screen (under the navigation controller) but rather flush after the Navigation Bar Header at the top? like this: [button] Navigation Bar Header at top of screen [other button] X (section l...
I've created a compound unique index on my table: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[SearchIndexWord]( [ID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, [CatalogID] [int] NOT NULL, [Word] [nvarchar](100) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_SearchIndexWord] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [ID] ASC ) WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY...
I tried to store Arabic string in SQL 2008 database but it converted to " question mark " why ? and what should I do ? ...
My table's collation is utf8_general_ci. My pages are encoded with UTF-8 (without BOM). Within my pages, my Equiv meta tag sets character set to utf8 My data has Turkish characters in it. When i output them, it's not showing them as it should be but when i do $db->set_charset("utf8");, it works. Why do i have to use $db->set_charset...
I have a search functionality that obtains data from an InnoDB table (utf8_spanish_ci collation) and displays it in an HTML document (UTF-8 charset). The user types a substring and obtains a list of matches where the first substring occurrence is highlighted, e.g.: Matches for "AL": Álava <strong>Al</strong>bacete <strong>Al</strong>me...
What is the impact of Server collation on databases? We have dev and production environments on different server collations, is there a risk having these different server collations? ...
Hello. I'm making a Java app that receives some names from SQLite and puts them on a listbox. The thing is I want it to be accurately ordered in an ascending alphabetical way (In Portuguese to be specific). These entries, for example: Beta Árida Ana Should be ordered as: Ana Árida Beta But since it orders in some ASCII order, the "a...
Hi, I found a similar post about this but still not sure. As i am making my guestbook and so forth multilanguage i changed the collation to uft8_unicode_ci in mysql, everything works as it should, something that i did not think of was the type i use, my guestbook is multilanguage and for the name field a user cannot enter more than 50 ...
Hi, I installed sql server 2008 enterprise and created a sample database whit Persian_CI_AI Collation. then from a visual studio 2010 windows application i insert the word "اسكندر" whith two type of 'ك'(arabic & Persian) but in the search time result show me just one 'اسكندر' . Please Help me ...
Is it possible to change collation for all objects under the database? For example, if I change the database collation, it should change all the objects (tables,procs,etc.) related to that database. ...
We're developing a swedish web site using hobo and rails. We want to host the site on Heroku but we're having a problem with the sort order of results from the DB. Does anyone know if there's a way to specify the collation for the underlying standard Heroku DB? ...
The problem A friend is developing a Swedish dictionary web application. One use will be for checking words in Scrabble games. The Swedish Scrabble rules (in Swedish) allow for example 'a' and 'á' to be treated as the same letter, but not 'u' and 'û' or 'y' and 'ü'. The Swedish collation rules (latin1_swedish_ci) think differently and t...
I need to differentiate between nodes starting with 'O' and nodes starting with 'Ö' (o umlaut). The problem is that since the node table and the title column have utf8_general_ci collation, MYSQL does not treat o and ö umlaut differently and this query returns nodes starting with O AND nodes starting with Ö SELECT node.nid AS nid FROM ...