latin1_swedish_ci collation ?

[joximu]

latin1_swedish_ci is the default from MySQL - they are from sweden :-)

Most important is the first part latin1 - it's the charset. the second is the sort order, which is in case of swedish not really great (ü is sorted near y which is not the case in the german language...).
utf-8 would be better. We already did a step in this direction with Changeset r993 but there are some more steps todo...

/J