Re: another seemingly simple encoding question

["John D. Burger" <john@xxxxxxxxx>]

> i have a problem matching a utf8 string with a field in a database 
> encoded in utf8.

You seem to give all the details of your configuration, but unless I 
misread your message, you don't say what the actual problem is.  Can 
you provide more details?  What exactly doesn't work?

This may not be the issue, but many people don't realize that there are 
sometimes multiple ways to encode what is conceptually the same string 
in UTF8 (or any of the Unicode encodings).  If you do not canonicalize 
your strings using one of the Unicode normalization forms, then 
seemingly identical strings may not match, because they are not 
byte-for-byte identical.

- John D. Burger
  MITRE