Searching when using language specific characters

Note to Kurt Lieber: Stop whining about topics that have been discussed already. If this topic has been up before, just don't open it eh? Anyways: I have a register with lots of names in it, names which in some cases contain characters that can not be found in the ordinary english aphabet. Norwegian characters like æ, ø and å. Sorting these is not working, so I was wondering if someone had a neat little solution for this? And yes: Its MySQL :) I am guessing I have to do something with the character set... Can I set the char set from the webpage where I'm calling the search or...? - Torkil