[Catalyst] Passing UTF-8 arg in URL to DBIC search

[Hugh Hunter]

Hello all,

I've been struggling with this for some time and know there must be an  
answer out there.

I'm using URL arguments to pass parameters to my controller.  It's a  
site about names, so take the url http://domain.com/name/Jesús (note  
the accented u).  The Name.pm controller has an :Args(1) decorator so  
Jesús is stored in $name and then passed to my DBIC model in a - 
 >search({name => $name}) call.  This doesn't manage to find the row  
that exists in mysql.  When I dump $name I get:

'name' => 'Jes\xc3\xbas'

which I think I understand as being perl's internal escaping of utf-8  
characters.

I've done everything recommended on http://dev.catalystframework.org/wiki/gettingstarted/tutorialsandhowtos/using_unicode 
  and the name column in my mysql database uses the utf-8 charset.

Where am I going wrong?

Best regards,

--Hugh