Hi Sven,
currently the perl driver DBD::MaxDB doesn't support unicode. It is planned,
but no time schedule so far.

Regards,
Marco

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sven Köhler
> Sent: Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 13:32
> To: maxdb@lists.mysql.com
> Subject: DBD::MaxDB and Unicode-Data
> 
> Hi,
> 
> afaik, DBD::MaxDB converts unicode-data to latin1 (or whatever the
> current locale implies). This might be bad in certain 
> situations. There
> are a few questions that arise:
> 
> - can DBD::MaxDB be forced to return data in a specific charset, for
> example UTF-8
> - afaik perl does support unicode-strings like "\u1234". I don't know,
> how good that support is - but DBD::MaxDB may chose to return the data
> in that format
> 
> Thx
>   Sven
> 

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