On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:31:52 +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
>It would be cool if something akin to "binmode STDOUT, ':utf8';" could
>be applied when sending data to the driver -- i.e. my data is in "Perl's
>internal format", whether that be Latin-1 or UTF-8 in the case of the
>string at hand, and it all gets automagically upgraded to UTF-8 if
>necessary before insertion into the database.
Oh that's easy to achieve. Just concatenate the string with an UTF-8
string, and you'll get an UTF-8 string. Perl will do the upgrading for
you.
Just try it:
$zero_length_utf8 = pack "U0"; # UTF8, length ==0
$string = "�l�ve"; # Latin-1
$string .= $zero_length_utf8; # upgrade to UTF8
print $string;
Now the reverse is much harder... :)
--
Bart.
