When I run a query for this string in SQLite with these entries in Cyrillic in a text field, I only find one.
When I put the two strings in two different cells in Excel and search, it only finds the one I copied and pasted in the search prompt. aфpиканeц африканец
I tried checking the encoding on these strings too, but both of them are UTF-8 according to the tools I tried in.
What am I missing? Why does Excel and the SQLite DB don't see them as the same string?
Excel and SQL see them as different strings because they are different strings. The first string aфpиканeц
uses latin characters for the 'a' (0x61) and 'p' (0x70): (note the lack of encoding for them)
While the second string uses all cyrillic characters, including 'а' (0x430) and 'р' (0x440) respectively. африканец
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