UTF-8 support in DBD::mysql

Dominic Mitchell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Organization Semantico
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Are there any plans to introduce UTF-8 support to DBD::mysql?  At the 
moment, when I retrieve UTF-8 data from MySQL, it doesn't have the UTF-8 
flag set on the returned string.  This means that I have to litter my 
code with calls to Encode::decode_utf8().

Ideally, I'm looking for something like PostgreSQL's pg_enable_utf8 
flag: http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/DBD-Pg-1.44/Pg.pm#pg_enable_utf8

If it's agreed that the functionality is desired, I'm happy to create a 
patch based on the PostgreSQL support.

Thanks,
-Dom

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