Brethren, I have a little encoding problem. I have a MySQL table defined as follows 
CREATE TABLE i18n (
  Id varchar(50),
  Language char(2),
  Text text,
  PRIMARY KEY (Id,Language)
)
ENGINE = MyISAM
CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
;

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and a schema class for it 
package Superclix::Schema::I18N;

use strict;
use warnings;

use base 'DBIx::Class';

__PACKAGE__->load_components(qw(Core UTF8Columns));
__PACKAGE__->table("i18n");

__PACKAGE__->add_columns(
    "Id"       => { data_type => 'VARCHAR', is_nullable => 0, size => 
+50, accessor => 'name' },
    "Language" => { data_type => 'VARCHAR', is_nullable => 0, size => 
+2, accessor => 'lang'  },
    "Text"     => { data_type => 'TEXT',    is_nullable => 0, accessor
+ => 'text' },
);

__PACKAGE__->utf8_columns(qw/Text/);

1;

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But when I use the schema and read the russian characters stored in the table the results are only question marks. I tried decoding the field using Encode but that didn't help (same result). Can anybody shed some light on this?

TIA

Update:
Solved. The trick is to set mysql_enable_utf8 in the call to connect.


holli, /regexed monk/

In reply to MySQL, DBIx::Class and UTF-8 by holli

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