On Friday 10 November 2017 10:13:55 Patrick M. Galbraith wrote: > Greetings all! > > Michiel and I have been talking, weighing options of what course to take in > dealing with moving forward-- with the goal of both offering both stability > and the choice to have the latest functionality and bug fixes as well as > give contributors the opportunity to be part of overall improvements to the > driver. > > What we are going to do is: > > Add to the connection the ability to turn on proper UTF handling with > 'mysql_enable_proper_unicode'. This gives the user volition the option to > knowingly > toggle whether they want the new functionality and understand that > data structures returned or accepted by the driver might be different > than without this setting. > > The other options had their merits, but we think this will solve the issue > while keeping the driver unified and prevent divergence. > > Thank you for your input over the last couple months-- we look forward to > moving ahead! > > Patrick and Michiel
Great! Thank you very much, I'm waiting for a new action which would bring DBD::mysql back to the active development.
