On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Alexander Foken wrote:
Right. (But remember that DBI was there before Unicode support was added to Perl, and also most DBDs are older that the Unicode support. Before Unicode was there, you just passed bytes around and everything just worked.)
Only if by everything you exclude any and all operations that need to be character aware, such as length, substr, regexes, encoding, etc.
That's why I proposed to switch to DBD::ODBC: It is well tested and supports Unicode as good as the ODBC driver does.
And as I said in private email, that's not really feasible for us.
Now you "just" need to find someone who is willing and has the time to patch DBD::Sybase ... ;-)
Which is why I'm hoping we can pay Michael to work on this. Clearly, he's the most qualified. Otherwise, I might have to do this, which is a scary thought.
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