title: MySQL treats ÅÄÖ as AAO?
body: <p>These two querys gives me the exact same result:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select * from topics where name='Harligt';
  select * from topics where name='Härligt';
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How is this possible? Seems like mysql translates åäö to aao when it searches. Is there some way to turn this off?</p>
  
  <p>I use utf-8 encoding everywhere as far as i know. The same problem occurs both from terminal and from php.</p>