Re: Character Encoding (UTF-8) in PERL

Solving it on the database side would be the optimal solution.  If it
isn't a possibility, for whatever reason, take a look at
http://perldoc.perl.org/utf8.html.

Thanks,
James

On 5/10/07, Christian Kuelker <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Oliver K=F6nig schrieb:
> > Sarge
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D
> > mysql 4.0.24
> >
> > Etch
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D
> > mysql 5.0.32
> >
> > In mysql everything looks fine, too:
> I doubt ..
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> > mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "character_set_%";
> > +--------------------------+----------------------------+
> > | Variable_name            | Value                      |
> > +--------------------------+----------------------------+
> > | character_set_client     | utf8                       |
> > | character_set_connection | utf8                       |
> > | character_set_database   | utf8                       |
> > | character_set_filesystem | binary                     |
> > | character_set_results    | utf8                       |
> > | character_set_server     | utf8                       |
> > | character_set_system     | utf8                       |
> > | character_sets_dir       | /usr/share/mysql/charsets/ |
> > +--------------------------+----------------------------+
> >
> > However a PERL script with dbh->do(SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "character_set_%=
");
> > returns:
> > character_set_client      latin1
> > character_set_connection  latin1
> > character_set_database    utf8
> > character_set_filesystem  binary
> > character_set_results     latin1
> > character_set_server      utf8
> > character_set_system      utf8
> > character_sets_dir        /usr/share/mysql/charsets/
> >
> > How can we tell PERL to use UTF-8 as default encoding?
>
> As you show in your query, the results are in latin1. I would guess
> it is the upgrade of mysql which is your problem. So try to solve the
> problem in mysql not Perl.
>
> Cheers
> C.
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