Olav Mørkrid schrieb:
> hello
>
> i would like to search a table column for a range of non-ascii
> characters, or a particular non-ascii character. how can i do this?

Maybe via a inverted regular expression [1] like this?:

SELECT * FROM <TABLE> WHERE <COLUMN> RLIKE '[^-, a-zA-Z0-9]'


[1]: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/regexp.html