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in thread Convert database into UTF-8

But - I just think I'm misunderstanding the documents, or the fundementals of DBI. I'm not quite sure how one would go about using Encode. Do I - encode('utf8', decode('ENCODING', $database{column})) ?

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Re^4: Convert database into UTF-8
by cog (Parson) on Apr 20, 2005 at 11:13 UTC
    Probably. If not that, something similar.

    And then you have to update the database, with something like

    update table set column = encode('utf8', decode('ENCODING', $database{column}))

    At least I think so... although I'm not sure of how to do that with DBI without looking at the docs.

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