MySQL Reference Manual for version 4.0.18.

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5.7.1.1 German character set

To get German sorting order, you should start mysqld with --default-character-set=latin1_de. This will give you the following characteristics.

When sorting and comparing strings, the following mapping is done on the strings before doing the comparison:

 
@"a  ->  ae
@"o  ->  oe
@"u  ->  ue
ß  ->  ss

All accented characters, are converted to their un-accented uppercase counterpart. All letters are converted to uppercase.

When comparing strings with LIKE the one -> two character mapping is not done. All letters are converted to uppercase. Accent are removed from all letters except: @"U, @"u, @"O, @"o, @"A and @"a.



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