Re: fulltext search with utf8 characters (umlaut) with 5.1

[Rick James]

SELECT id, HEX(name) FROM fulltexttable;

Do you get this?

1 62C383C2A47274736368
  b ^ ^ ^ ^ r y s c h

That would be the dreaded "double encoding".

Drop the table, and repeat, doing
SET NAMES utf8
after the connect and before the rest of the code.