[Catalyst] UTF-8 strings getting stragely converted to latin1 when coming from MySQL DB

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 04:12:51PM +0100, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> I suggested the "set names utf8" thing. That's because I have personal
> experience of mysql doing just what the OP described, and this turned out to
> be the fix.
> 
> I have no idea if or how catalyst makes this call ... but I just know that
> SOMETHING has to ...

Catalyst is a web framework. It has no idea what you're talking about.

DBIx::Class is an ORM. The config change I suggest should make it run that
SQL statement - but I've seen previous reports that 'set names utf8' isn't
sufficient, hence also mentioning the UTF8Columns component (which is now
in DBIx-Class-current).

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