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Posted by Joost Diepenmaat on March 6, 2008, 1:35 pm
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> Good idea to sumarize possible problems - good page.
> I can mention only that you can use this too
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> my $dbh = DBI->connect( <parameters>);
> $dbh->do( "SET NAMES utf8");
That by itself won't guarantee that your data will be correctly
handled. DBD::mysql provides the mysql_enable_utf8 option for a
reason. You do need at least DBD::mysql 4.004 for it to work more or
less correctly, though.
To the original poster: don't worry too much about the experimental
status of the option. It might some day go away (IMO not very likely,
though) but it's the best method today for getting reasonable unicode
behaviour out of DBD::mysql. At worst, you may have to remove the option
some time in the future, but the behaviour it enables is likely to stay.
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