Re: Add Unicode Support to the DBI

2011-09-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:06:49 -, Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com wrote: One thing I see bandied about a lot is that Perl 5.14 is highly preferred. However, it's not clear exactly what the gains are and how bad 5.12 is compared to 5.14, how bad 5.10 is, how bad 5.8 is, etc. Right now

Re: Add Unicode Support to the DBI

2011-09-10 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 10/09/2011 03:52, David E. Wheeler wrote: DBIers, tl;dr: I think it's time to add proper Unicode support to the DBI. What do you think it should look like? I'm not sure any change is required to DBI to support unicode. As far as I'm aware unicode already works with DBI if the DBDs do the

Re: Add Unicode Support to the DBI

2011-09-10 Thread Lyle
On 10/09/2011 04:06, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Right now 5.8 is the required minimum for DBI: should we consider bumping this? I know a lot of servers in the wild are still running RHEL5 and it's variants, which are stuck on 5.8 in the standard package management. The new RHEL6 only has