On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Hugh Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been struggling with this for some time and know there must be an > answer out there. > > I'm using URL arguments to pass parameters to my controller. It's a site > about names, so take the url http://domain.com/name/Jesús (note the accented > u). The Name.pm controller has an :Args(1) decorator so Jesús is stored in > $name and then passed to my DBIC model in a ->search({name => $name}) call. > This doesn't manage to find the row that exists in mysql. When I dump > $name I get: > > 'name' => 'Jes\xc3\xbas' > > which I think I understand as being perl's internal escaping of utf-8 > characters. > > I've done everything recommended on > http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/gettingstarted/tutorialsandhowtos/using_unicode > and > the name column in my mysql database uses the utf-8 charset. > > Where am I going wrong? > > Best regards, > > --Hugh
I haven't dug into the Catalyst source to see of any handling for the arguments, but just for testing you may want to try doing a utf8::decode($name) and see if that does the trick for you. (Wild guessing on my part, sorry) -J _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/