"MySQL matches text case insensitive" This is of course only when you set a case insensitive collation (_ci). But I agree this can be a problem because case i

"MySQL matches text case insensitive" This is of course only when you set a case insensitive collation (_ci). But I agree this can be a problem because case insensitive collations are used a lot in MySQL. Also other collations can be a trouble. For example the collation that returns results for both 'ß' and 'ss' (German)