Characters “ي” and “ی” and the difference in persian - Mysql

Question

I\'m working on a UTF-8 Persian website with integrated mysql database. All the content in the website are imported through an admin panel and it\'s all persian.

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Answer 1

You must use N (meaning uNicode) before non-English characters, for example:

REPLACE(COLUMNNAME, N'ي', N'ی')