From: Date: June 25 2005 5:27pm
Subject: Re: [patch] DBD::mysql UTF-8 handling
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Jan Kratochvil wrote:

> yet another mail in the utf8 saga.
> 
> Attached patch is just a followup to:
> 	http://lists.mysql.com/perl/3006?f=plain
> 
> but also implementing proper _writing_ of utf-8 data to MySQL. The patch above
> worked fine for me for _reading_ but I was unable to find out any way how to
> write them properly in utf-8.
> 

But the patches don't make a distinction of binary vs. char types, ie. only 
char/varchar/text/&c. should be flagged as utf-8 whereas BLOBs and friends 
should be left alone, right?  Or did I miss the code that does that, for I only 
did a cursory look over?


-r