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    <p>I have a MySQL table with two columns, both utf8_unicode_ci collated. It contains the following rows. Except for ASCII, the second field also contains Unicode codepoints like U+02C8 (MODIFIED LETTER VERTICAL LINE) and U+02D0 (MODIFIED LETTER TRIANGULAR COLON).</p> <pre><code> word | ipa --------+---------- Hallo | haˈloː IPA | ˌiːpeːˈʔaː </code></pre> <p>I need to search the second field with LIKE and REGEXP, but MySQL (5.0.77) seems to interpret these fields as bytes, not as characters.</p> <pre><code>SELECT * FROM pronunciation WHERE ipa LIKE '%ha?lo%'; -- 0 rows SELECT * FROM pronunciation WHERE ipa LIKE '%ha??lo%'; -- 1 row SELECT * FROM pronunciation WHERE ipa REGEXP 'ha.lo'; -- 0 rows SELECT * FROM pronunciation WHERE ipa REGEXP 'ha..lo'; -- 1 row </code></pre> <p>I'm quite sure that the data is stored correctly, as it seems good when I retrieve it and shows up fine in phpMyAdmin. I'm on a shared host, so I can't really install programs.</p> <p>How can I solve this problem? If it's not possible: is there a plausible work-around that does not involve processing the entire database with PHP every time? There are 40 000 lines, and I'm not dead-set on using MySQL (or UTF8, for that matter). I only have access to PHP and MySQL on the host.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> There is an open 4-year-old MySQL bug report, <a href="http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=30241" rel="noreferrer">Bug #30241 Regular expression problems</a>, which notes that the regexp engine works byte-wise. Thus, I'm looking for a work-around.</p>
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