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RackTables uses "CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci", which should produce correct results for most languages, given there are no configuration issues. Can you check that the MySQL server is properly configured for UTF-8? mysql> status [...] Server characterset: utf8 Db characterset: utf8 Client characterset: utf8 Conn. characterset: utf8 [...] Does MySQL store the special character properly? Does it return the data in correct sort order, when you query from a MySQL client? |
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Does this issue reproduce on demo.racktables.org? |
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I have reproduced creating some Locations on demo.racktables.org mysql> status [...] Server characterset: latin1 Db characterset: utf8 Client characterset: utf8 Conn. characterset: utf8 I have verfied and this is the same doing SELECT ... ORDER BY directly on mysql. This was fixed when I have added to the query "COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci" or "COLLATE utf8_polish_ci". So it seems mysql has problems with polish letters when utf8_general_ci is used. Any chance to set it in Racktables as a config option? |
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> Server characterset: latin1 Does it work OK with the server configured for UTF-8 (see some hints in README)? |
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I have changed tried it - but it did not help :/ mysql> status -------------- mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.1.66, for debian-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline 6.1 Server characterset: utf8 Db characterset: utf8 Client characterset: utf8 Conn. characterset: utf8 |
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http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/charset-unicode-sets.html "For any Unicode character set, operations performed using the xxx_general_ci collation are faster than those for the xxx_unicode_ci collation. For example, comparisons for the utf8_general_ci collation are faster, but slightly less correct, than comparisons for utf8_unicode_ci." |
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This issue will be resolved through changing the default collation. This requires some testing that I cannot immediately complete. The solution is likely to miss the next stable release. |
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Blazej, would you like to author a fix for this issue? The right approach would be not modifying SELECTs to use COLLATE, but changing the default COLLATE in the database (this seems to require the change on all tables and all columns as well). The changes would need to be made in install.php and upgrade.php. |
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Pull request https://github.com/RackTables/racktables/pull/29 to introduce explicit collate option for all tables. |
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Merged, thank you. |
- Anonymous
