From: Shawn Green
Date: June 15 2012 8:40pm
Subject: Re: Foreign key and uppercase / lowercase values
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On 6/15/2012 3:19 PM, Rick James wrote:
> Those refer _only_ to German 'ß' LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S.  The example GF gave did not involve that character.
>
> To my knowledge, that is the only case where MySQL changed a collation after releasing it.
>

Yes, it has been the only occurrence. However, the esset (sharp S) is 
just one example of the alternative spelling letters that were affected 
by the collation change. Thorn, the AE ligand, and many others fall into 
that same category.

Regards,
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Shawn Green
MySQL Principal Technical Support Engineer
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