On 2007-02-15 18:45:31 +0100, Alexander Foken wrote: > http://search.cpan.org/~pythian/DBD-Oracle-1.19/Oracle.pm#Oracle_and_Unicode > says roughly that Oracle 8 and Unicode don't mix well.
| Oracle 8 client libraries have a number of bugs related to character | set handling, especially when connected to an Oracle 9+ server. However, I have the opposite situation: I have 9.2 client libraries and an 8.1 server. > If possible, try to upgrade the Oracle server to at least 9.2 and use > AL32UTF32 as charset. Unfortunately, that's not an option right now. I do have a number of workarounds: I can either use another charset than UTF-8 (the database uses WE8MSWIN1252 anyway) or I can explicitely encode() all strings passed to DBI. Neither is particularly appealing, and I'd rather fix the problem than program workarounds. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | If I wanted to be "academically correct", |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd be programming in Java. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I don't, and I'm not. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jesse Erlbaum on dbi-users
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