[Catalyst] Re: utf8 / pg double encoding problem

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> [2008-01-06 13:30]:
> On Jan 6, 2008 1:29 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote:
> > * Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> [2008-01-06 00:00]:
> > > [debug] abçöeü
> > > [debug] $VAR1 = "ab\x{c3}\x{a7}\x{c3}\x{b6}e\x{c3}\x{bc}";
> > > [debug] it's UTF8!
> >
> > Err, why doesn't Dumper say "ab\x{e7}\x{f6}e\x{fc}"? Strange
> > that the first line looks correct, though.
>
> because it is utf8? shouldn't it be?

What Dumper outputs is the UTF-8 byte sequence; but the next line
says that the Unicode flag is set, so this is a character string,
not a byte string. So it’s already double-encoded.

I don’t understand why the first line looks correct though.

In any case the raw HTTP request that leads to all this would be
interesting.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>