Hi, I moved some code from one server to another. The versions of perl, dbi and dbd-mysql changed.

old:

perl.x86_64 4:5.8.8-43.el5_11
perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 3.0007-2.el5
perl-DBI.x86_64 1.52-2.el5

new:

perl.x86_64 4:5.10.1-141.el6
perl-DBD-MySQL.x86_64 4.013-3.el6
perl-DBI.x86_64 1.609-4.el6

All the perl-Unicode modules are installed.

Data passes over the wire from mysql with unicode in it. For instance, my e-acute comes over the wire as two bytes, 0xC3 0xA9.

On the old server, it is printed as two bytes. On the new server, it is printed as one byte: E9. On the new server perl's length function reports the string as having the correct number of characters as a one-byte character.

Printing the line with Encode::encode_utf8 causes it to come out correctly, but this requires combing a multitude of code to ad the encode_utf8 statement.

I tried adding mysql_enable_utf8 => 1 to the collection of options in the DBI->connect line, with no luck.

How can I avoid combing the code for places to add the encode_utf8 function.

Thanks,

Ed Greenberg

In reply to UTF8 between versions by edgreenberg

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