Re: DBI and UTF-8

2003-12-09 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:33:50PM +0900, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote: > Can it be implemented as pragma? If it can be, it'd be very > convinient. Turned out that the pragma is called: use encoding 'utf8'; this is only lightly documented in perlunicode.pod, and not in encoding.pm itself! I'm w

[PATCH perlunicode.pod, encoding.pm] Implicit upgrading docs

2003-12-09 Thread Autrijus Tang
As a result of a recent discussion in perl-unicode, it was apparent that these facts were generally unknown to most folks working with Perl's unicode model: - Byte strings are upgraded to Unicode strings with "Latin-1". - Unicode strings are downgraded to Byte strings with "UTF-8". - O