[Catalyst] Re: [Dbix-class] Re: utf8 / pg double encoding problem

[Ashley]

And thank you for the chance to not look like a dummy for a change. :)

On Jan 9, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Daniel McBrearty wrote:

> Thanks Ashley, that did indeed fix the JSON problem!
>
> (wish I'd remembered to write a test *before* I fixed it like this  
> though ;-)
>
> cheers
>
> Daniel
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 9:28 PM, Ashley Pond V <apv at sedition.com> wrote:
>> This may or may not be germane: try installing JSON::XS and updating
>> your JSON and JSON::Any. JSON::XS is one of, if not the, fastest
>> serializers in all data classes and its utf8 handling is better. JSON
>> now, IIRC, calls it if it's present instead of its older Perl  
>> version.
>>
>> -Ashley
>>
>> On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:57 AM, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
>>
>>> Data is actually sent in URI encoded utf8 (looks like "ab%C3%A7
>>> ...."), which is fine. The string is then picked up, decoded and
>>> stored in the db just fine. The problem is that what gets sent back
>>> the other way (via Catalyst::View::JSON ) is not getting encoded. I
>>> don't know quite why just now (according to the docs it should do).
>>> Manually adding the Encode::encode_utf8( $result ) step fixes it for
>>> now. I may try peeking to see why it doesn't get handled by the  
>>> View.
>>
>>