9 messages in com.mysql.lists.perlRe: What to do with UTF-8 data?
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Steve Hay10 Sep 2003 08:50 
Tim Bunce11 Sep 2003 03:48 
Steve Hay11 Sep 2003 04:31 
Bart Lateur11 Sep 2003 07:25 
Rudy Lippan11 Sep 2003 08:56 
Steve Hay11 Sep 2003 10:09 
Rudy Lippan11 Sep 2003 10:36 
Steve Hay12 Sep 2003 00:58 
Steve Hay06 Oct 2003 03:15 
Subject:Re: What to do with UTF-8 data?
From:Rudy Lippan (rlip@remotelinux.com)
Date:09/11/2003 08:56:30 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.perl

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Steve Hay wrote:

Is there any such functionality currently in DBD-mysql, or any chance of it or something similar being added soonish?

Not right now, but I expect this to go into the next non-bugfix version which will have more support for the 4.1.x features; and I don't expect it to be that much longer before a release.

I could really use some means of telling DBD-mysql to do the conversions outlined above on all my char data.

You might be able to use some of the Class::DBI features to get this write now; or, if you would like (and don't mind using pre-alpa code), I could hack up a patch this weekend that would give you a mysql_enable_utf8 flag that if enabled will try and guess the types (as DBD::Pg does right now).

Rudy