Re: Database character sets

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On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 15:18 +0000, Tom Insam wrote:
> I'd like to use Class::DBI and a database to store character sequences, 
> as opposed to bytes, specifically I'd like things in the database to be 
> encoded as utf-8 byte sequences everywhere. Although mysql4.1, which is 
> my current development target, claims to support character sets on 
> tables, it doesn't look like DBD::mysql knows how to deal with this. 
> Anyway, it may be that we're moving DB servers, and I don't want to 
> have to require that the new server knows about them.
> 
> Is this a solved problem yet? I'm hoping that it _must_ be, but I can't 
> find anything in the archives of this list or the wiki about it.

It sounds like you should be checking the dbi-users archives instead.
This doesn't sound like it has much to do with Class::DBI.

- Perrin