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MySQL 3.x is known to have some problems upper- and lower-casing certain (non-ASCII) characters.
An example (faulty) output of the Encoding Test is shown below:
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Screenshot: Encoding Test Output (excerpt)
Upgrade to a newer version of MySQL. (4.1 is confirmed to work.)