[Phpmyadmin-devel] Matching accented characters in PHP ?

[Marc Delisle]

Robin Johnson wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>From a bug report that was just made about the parser:
>SELECT sum(dureé) FROM files;
>
>My parser fails on the é in the query, as I hadn't treated it as a valid
>character before now, but re-reading the docs on MySQL column names, as
>long as the name is valid in your filesystem, it will be accepted by
>MySQL.
>
As stated in  http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Legal_names.html
since MySQL 3.23.6, db names are restricted to characters allowed as a 
directory name,
table names restricted to characters allowed as a file name.

But column names are not restricted.

Before 3.23.6, this is slightly different.

Can't the parser just accept anything as a column name (if MySQL >= 3.23.6)?

>
>
>This means I need a way to match all accented characers to check for them
>in an SQL identifier.
>
>I put together a simple function that I thought should work, but it was
>for the windows character range, not iso-8559-1.
>
>Could somebody fix my PMA_STR_isAccented in libraries/string.lib.php3?
>I am also wondering if the character set that MySQL is using needs to be
>known to use the correct characters for matching accented stuff ?
>
>Could our character set people enlighten me on this please?
>