Handling UTF-8 (again)

There have been several attempts in the past to have DBI/DBD-mysql do
something useful with UTF-8 data, but as far as I can see nothing has
yet come of it in any released versions of the modules.

MySQL 4.1.10 is currently the recommended release of MySQL, and contains
lots of character set support. Are there any plans to provide access to
such support in DBD-mysql?

In particular, I want to have data that is retrieved from UTF-8 columns
in the database flagged in Perl as utf8. Gaal Yahas posted a patch
(http://lists.mysql.com/perl/3006) which achieved this fairly crudely
for all data. Presumably the new character set support means that
something similar could now be done properly, i.e. check with MySQL
itself to see if data is from a UTF-8 column, rather than guessing or
assuming that everything is.

- Steve


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