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

[Matt S Trout]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 05:50:50PM +0100, Michele Beltrame wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > 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).
> 
> I tried it and it did no good. Also this full-featured version did no good:
> 
> __PACKAGE__->storage->on_connect_do([
> 	'set names utf8',
> 	'set_character_set_client=utf8',
> 	'set_character_set_results=utf8',
> 	'set_character_set_connection=utf8'
> ]);

Did DBI->trace show that being run?

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