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Encoding issue from DBI to string

ev0lution37
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Jan 3, 2013, 8:20 AM

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Encoding issue from DBI to string	Can't Post

I'm pretty stumped. I'm pulling from a MySQL database using DBI, however I'm getting junk when I dump it to an array. Here's the code:

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my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$db_name1:$db_host1:$db_port1","$db_user1","$db_pw1", {RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0, mysql_enable_utf8 => 1, ChopBlanks =>0}); 
 
 $log->debug("Running SQL Select statement: $sqlselect" . "\n"); 
 
 my $RowSet = $dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT * FROM CollectionDB.ISIS WHERE SourceID = '$PassedSource' ORDER BY ObjectKey DESC");

Now, after that I set each element of the array to a set of strings, then run data_string_desc on them. This is the result:

Code

artTitle is ?????? ?? ??? ???? ???? ???? 
Encoding test on Title results: UTF8 off, ASCII, 28 characters 28 bytes

I'm not sure how, even with UTF-8 enabled while DBI is connecting to the DB and UTF-8 set for every configuration on the database itself, the string is still appearing as ASCII. I need the UTF-8 because a majority of the data I'm bringing in is multibit (Chinese, Arabic, etc..)

Thanks in advance for any insight you can providE!

wickedxter
User

Jan 12, 2013, 9:00 AM

Post #2 of 4 (3237 views)

Re: [ev0lution37] Encoding issue from DBI to string [In reply to]	Can't Post

Do u have the module:

Code

use utf8;

at the top of ur script?

7stud
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Jan 14, 2013, 11:10 PM

Post #3 of 4 (3121 views)

Re: [wickedxter] Encoding issue from DBI to string [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To

Do u have the module:

Code

use utf8;

at the top of ur script?

Do you spy any utf8 characters in the op's code?

(This post was edited by 7stud on Jan 14, 2013, 11:11 PM)

ev0lution37
Novice

Jan 15, 2013, 5:58 AM

Post #4 of 4 (3099 views)

Re: [7stud] Encoding issue from DBI to string [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks for the replies. I actually did manage to get this resolved. In the end, it ended up being some weird issue with the version of Perl I was using.

Unfortunately, almost everything else in the workflow was dependent on the first version of Perl. Had to end up using two separate instances of it. Kind of a pain, but it's working.

Thanks again!

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