What database are you using? Perhaps the driver has an option to do this. I know Oracle does.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark Hedges [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 3/28/2006 9:39 PM To: dbi-users@perl.org Subject: forcing utf8 on selected values There are several to-do items regarding utf8 that would be great, but aren't here yet. My database has utf8 columns, server/client character sets and collation. Yet when I call fetchrow, resulting Perl scalars do not have the utf8 flag set. That's really annoying. Am I supposed to call map { utf8::upgrade($_) } $every,$stupid,$little,$scalar every time I do a select statement? Or map through the results of any selectall_*ref's? This fixes the display problems when printing a page to a browser with charset utf-8. Is there an easier way to do this? Please tell me there is. Mark
