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on Jan 30, 2010 at 07:01 UTC ( [id://820455]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
thedi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: I have a big application, all written in Perl. It uses a MySQL database and saves in some cases Perl structures to the database. This Perl structures are dumped with Data::Dumper and restored with eval. Everyting is in Unicode: program sources, data files, database. Each program and Module begins with use utf8. Non-ASCII Unicode data is handled without problems, except in one case: data dumped with Data::Dumper, then restored and then written to the database (now without Dumper). Such data is corrupted. After some research i finally found out that the data restored with eval looses its utf-8 bit. All bytes are correct, but Perl does not know that it is utf8-encoded. DBI then fails when it tries to include such data in SQL statements. Unluckilly the application is quite big, What is the simplest way to fix this problem? All I need is a way to tell Perl in evals, that string which are generated by the eval are in Unicode (Useqq does not solve it) This program demonstrates the problem:
Output is PS: it is on a Mac OSX 10.5.8 with Perl v5.8.8 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
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