Re: Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-12 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:01:02PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: > > o returning the data in some native codepage like windows-1252 does > not help you really, it probably hinders you and in any case you can > encode it as windows-1252 afterwards when you output it somewhere. > > As a result, I t

Re: Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-10 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 10/05/2011 09:08, Martin J. Evans wrote: On 09/05/11 22:06, Tim Bunce wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:42:53PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: I've recently had an rt posted (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a discussion on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/qu

Re: Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-10 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 09/05/11 22:06, Tim Bunce wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:42:53PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: I've recently had an rt posted (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a discussion on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5912082/automatic-character-encoding-

Re: Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 07:42:53PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: > I've recently had an rt posted > (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a > discussion on stackoverflow > (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5912082/automatic-character-encoding-handling-in-perl-dbi-dbdodbc).

Decoding data from the database in DBD

2011-05-09 Thread Martin J. Evans
I've recently had an rt posted (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67994) after a discussion on stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5912082/automatic-character-encoding-handling-in-perl-dbi-dbdodbc). In this case the Perl script is binding the columns but the data ret