Perl utf8

[Paul Dlug]

On 11/22/05, Dave Evans <memcached-list-20050609 at djce.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 04:52:33PM -0800, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > Actually that sounds like exactly the wrong way to fix the problem.
>
> Fair enough; I was forgetting that the module already includes the
> Storable
> logic (that is, I was thinking of Cache::Memcached as a simple byte
> storage
> system). I'm still curious to know more about why (encode|decode)_utf8
> didn't
> work for the original poster.



I found the problem, the string is being fetched from a MySQL database and
of course you must manually call decode_utf8() on the string returned by DBI
in order to get it properly encoded. I am also calling encode/decode_utf8
with the cache set/get and this fixes the problem. Thanks.
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