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I have no illusions that MySQL or its clients are top shelf tools but I have been using DBD::mysql for almost 20 years at this point without anything I would call broken behavior, just lots of terrible default behavior that acts broken until you sort it out. So could you elaborate on the broken encoding support?

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Re^3: Storing UTF-8 data into database from scraped web page
by choroba (Cardinal) on Jun 14, 2018 at 21:06 UTC
    See for example #20, #23, #35, or #47. See also dbdimp.c:5933 and below on how numbers were recognized in DBD::mysql. For more information, read any other pull request.

    ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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