DBIers,
tl;dr: I think it's time to add proper Unicode support to the DBI. What do you
think it should look like?
Background
I've brought this up a time or two in the past, but a number of things have
happened lately to make me think that it was again time:
First, on the DBD::Pg list, we've
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: RIPEMD160
One thing I see bandied about a lot is that Perl 5.14 is highly preferred.
However, it's not clear exactly what the gains are and how bad 5.12 is
compared to 5.14, how bad 5.10 is, how bad 5.8 is, etc. Right now 5.8 is
the required minimum
Another wrinkle to this is the fact that identifiers in the database, such as
column names and such, are also character data, and have an encoding. So for
any DBMSs that support Unicode identifiers (as I believe a complete one should,
even if they have to be quoted in SQL) or identifiers with
