Have a table where lower/upper case ASCII characters mean different things.  See example:
mysql> create table collation_test(value char(1));
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> insert into collation_test(value) values ('T');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
[A bunch more stuff]
mysql> select * from collation_test;
+-------+
| value |
+-------+
| T     |
| T     |
| T     |
| t     |
| t     |
| F     |
| F     |
| f     |
| f     |
+-------+
9 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select value,count(*) from collation_test group by value;
+-------+----------+
| value | count(*) |
+-------+----------+
| F     |        4 |
| T     |        5 |
+-------+----------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> alter table collation_test CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET latin1
mysql> COLLATE latin1_general_cs;
Query OK, 9 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Records: 9  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0
mysql> select value,count(*) from collation_test group by value;
+-------+----------+
| value | count(*) |
+-------+----------+
| F     |        2 |
| f     |        2 |
| T     |        3 |
| t     |        2 |
+-------+----------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Thursday, August 28, 2008
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