> > To make it all work I just had to: > > - Subclass CGI.pm (so that strings are marked as UTF-8) > > - Write an SQL layer that marks all the string that come from MySQL as > UTF-8 (3.21 doesn't support unicode but it doesn't mean that you can't > store Unicode text in Blobs...). For good measure, I also make sure that > all the strings are stored in NFC (useful for searches and stuff when > using a non-unicode aware system...) > > - Make my templating system Petal slightly aware of Unicode and serve > all the pages as UTF-8. > > And then whamo! Everything works fine. As long as you make sure that > your strings are properly encoded in Perl's internal format, "It Just > Works..."
Sounds cool. Would you be interested in writing a perl.com article on this? Or at least a white paper. I think many people would find it interesting and useful. Contact Simon Cozens, tell him I sent you :-) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
