Hi Mike,

The data is coming from MS SQL 2008 R2, I have checked the DB and the column is 
defined as data type nvarchar(max) , so is set to Unicode and when viewing data 
via SQL Studio Manager, the Unicode characters display fine.

I am accessing the DB via DBI and have set on the connection string.. 
{'RaiseError' => 1, 'mysql_enable_utf8' => 1}

Though I'm not sure if the utf8 setting has any affect when using an MS ODBC 
driver as the flag implies it's for mysql ?

I tried to apply  my $chars = decode('UTF-8', $xls); and I got an error saying 
you cannot decode a string with wide characters.

I don't know what the string is, but when you try to decode you get a wide 
character error and when you try to encode you get a wide character error.

If I don't do anything to it and just output it, no error, but the data is full 
of junk chars.

Where do I go from here?

Thanks,
Craig.



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Whitaker [mailto:m...@altrion.org]
Sent: 02 July 2013 12:27
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] CSV / UTF-8 / Unicode


>       # encode UTF8 octet
>        use Encode qw(decode encode);
>        my $octets = encode('UTF-8', $xls);

OUt of curiousity, where's the data in $xls come from, and what do you know 
about its encoding and bytes vs characters status?
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