Re: Database character sets

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* Tom Insam shaped the electrons to say...

>uh.. This is horribly dangerous, and will lead to things like segfaults 
>if the stuff in the database _isn't_ utf8. Using Encode::decode_utf() 
>would be much safer, though slower.
>
>Any pointers for hooking DB writes?

Well, I verify all my data to utf-8 on the way in, so I'm not really concerned about it.

If someone has a better way to do it, I'm all ears. My current concerns are
with SQLite and MySQL. Though it's good to know that Pg does the right thing.

-D
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