Re: Add Unicode Support to the DBI
"H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:24:51 +0100, "Martin J. Evans" <[email protected]> wrote: > Some might disagree but DB2 is a main > one I no longer have access to (please contact me if you use DBD::DB2 > and are prepared to spare half an hour or so to modify examples I have > which verify unicode support). Of course, if you use another DBD and can > send me info on unicode support I'd love to hear from you. There are two DB2 users on PerlMonks, who are rather helpful in testing areas. Ask [Tanktalus] & [talexb] :) $ grep -i -w db2 < "30 FreeNode-#cbstream.log" | grep -i -e unicode -e utf Sep 30 19:28:20 <cbstream> [Tanktalus] /me contemplates how to get unicode strings back out of db2 ... Feb 27 16:29:01 <cbstream> [talexb] /me returns to fiddling with utf-8 in DB2. Mar 06 17:56:26 <cbstream> [talexb] [Tanktalus]: Hey, looks like I solved the utf-8 DB2 problem .. just increase the field to 3n from n and it seems to work. Dec 16 21:19:11 <cbstream> [Tanktalus] The DB does. Thus, I would expect that the DBD *could* request data in whatever encoding it wants. And since it would want utf8 to mesh with Perl properly, and every encoding that DB2 supports has a mapping to utf8, this should be doable. Dec 16 21:25:24 <cbstream> [Tanktalus] [ambrus]: yeah, I would like to see it as "mandatory" for byte strings that are already utf-8 (which the DBD driver should be able to tell trivially, at least on DB2), or for connections/statements/something where said decoding was requested. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.14 and porting perl5.15.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.4 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/