1. I’ve just created a fresh github project containing the sources. simply see the links at the very end of the article.

2. the version on github is the actual code we’ve been using even since in production

3. this implementation requires XML files. compiled charsets are a completely different story.

cheers, stefan

First of all – you’re the only one on the internet that tried to solve this problem

I’ve got a few comments:
1. The link to the code doesn’t work
2. Is this the way you eventually implemented the solution, as a custom made Collator? Did you find a better way to do it perhaps?
3. Would you need to parse the MySQL charset files if you’re dealing only with utf8_unicode_ci? For that one, btw, there is no charset file, and I’m pretty sure it’s compiled into the server.