On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:15:36PM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 11:39:17PM -0000, Andy Hassall wrote: > > > Any and all testing would be greatly appreciated, but especially > > > testing of building against Oracle Instant Client and Oracle XE > > > on a range of platforms. > > > > I've put up a page with the test results for various combinations at: > > > > http://www.andyh.co.uk/temp/DBD-Oracle/1.17RC1/ > > > > It builds successfully and the majority of tests run OK on all the > > combinations, but there are some Unicode-related issues, in particular on > > 24implicit_utf8 on Linux and Windows with UTF8 client character set against > > a non-Unicode database. > > Specifically the failures seem to all be AL16UTF16 db NCHAR with a > non-unicode db CHAR charset. > > I recall something in the OCI docs about circumstances where NCHAR > charset conversions are performed 'via' the database CHAR charset. > That's probably the problem here. > > Did DBD::Oracle 1.16 also fail the same tests in the same config?
Nevermind. Turns out I have the same db config here and DBD::Oracle 1.16 worked. So a little diffing and experimentation pinpointed the problem RC2 to follow... Tim.
