Most of the things listed there are not MySQL specific. Here's one that I'm pretty sure is: SELECT * FROM example WHERE value = 'á'; where "á" uses UTF-8 enco

Most of the things listed there are not MySQL specific. Here's one that I'm pretty sure is: SELECT * FROM example WHERE value = 'á'; where "á" uses UTF-8 encoding. By default this will return rows that match both "á" AND "a", which may or may not be what you want. If you want to make MySQL distinguish between an "a" with an accent and one without, then you need to specify a collation either in the table creation/alter statement, or in your query directly: SELECT * example WHERE value = 'á' COLLATE utf8_bin;