On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Michael Peppler wrote:
2010/06/03 14:08:11 unicode CRITICAL: FATAL: DBD::Sybase::db do failed: Server
message number=2402 severity=16 state=1 line=1 server=HDATADEV1 text=Error
converting characters into server's character set. Some character(s) could not
be converted.
I'm not sure what that means.
Hmmm - is that on a query, or on an insert operation?
That was from an insert.
If I _don't_ set that, the data goes in and comes out as bytes, rather than the
bizarro hex string. However, the data does have the utf8 flag set when it comes
back from Sybase, so I have to run it through Encode::decode.
I really don't think I can realistically tell the bazillion developers here "just
run all the data through Encode".
I'd really like see an end-to-end solution.
I agree - I've just not had much opportunity (or requests) to ensure that this
works 100%.
Ideally if you could send me some sample code, and a simple table
structure and data that reproduces the problem for you I could try to
look at it and see if I can fix it.
See my previous email. I included some code, and there was a table
definition after the __END__ marker.
As I said, my employer might be willing to pay to have this done. If
that's something you're interested, let's talk off list and I can try to
help coordinate that.
Also, it's not clear to me that the data is actually being stored as
characters at the Sybase level. I'm not even sure how I'd figure this
out. When I do a select from sqsh, I see the wacky hex string, but I
can't tell if that's Sybase trying to present data to me in a format it
thinks my environment can handle.
When in doubt - use the Sybase tools (i.e. isql, and use -Jutf8 to force
conversion to/from utf8 when reading/writing the data).
Unfortunately, from the terminal on my work dev machine, this gives me the
hex string. I think something is being "helpful" here ;)
I fiddled with -Jutf8 and setting LC_ALL, to no avail.
-dave
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