On Mon 16 Jun 2003 16:45, Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is one of the "big issues" the DBI needs to address soon.
:) > As I'm short on time right now I'm going to just throw open this Me too. > topic and let you all chip in with ideas... > > I'll try to pick up the pieces later and then, after reviewing here, > post a summary of proposals to dbi-users. > > So, what say you all? I'm already working with full UTF-8 support :) But that's because we don't store the data as utf-8 in the database, because not all versions of the databases we use support it as such. When the application knows what data to expect (I've also tried storing the utf-8 as binary data, or simply as 8bit character data strings, which also worked, but made all native applications barf) you can always work around it. I fully agree with the subcategories Dominic mentions, and I surely hope that whatever UTF-8 support is added won't break previous workarounds or slow down DBI in general. > Tim. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using perl-5.6.1, 5.8.0 & 633 on HP-UX 10.20 & 11.00, AIX 4.2, AIX 4.3, WinNT 4, Win2K pro & WinCE 2.11 often with Tk800.024 &/| DBD-Unify ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/H/HM/HMBRAND/
