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Re^6: DBD::Pg encodes Perlstring to UTF-8 bytes instead of WIN1252 regardless client encoding

by Pickwick (Beadle)
on Jan 31, 2014 at 23:22 UTC ( [id://1072929]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^5: DBD::Pg encodes Perlstring to UTF-8 bytes instead of WIN1252 regardless client encoding
in thread DBD::Pg encodes Perlstring to UTF-8 bytes instead of WIN1252 regardless client encoding

As the author of DBIx::Log4perl I can guarantee you that DBIx::Log4perl gets any SQL passed to do/prepare before DBI and before DBD::Pg.

In this case I wonder why DBIx logs UTF-8 bytes, whereas Log4perl "outside" of DBI/DBIx does not. There must be some interference there, anything is getting passed a UTF-8 Perlstring and encodes it to UTF-8 bytes.

It seems like you are suggesting that when your client chrset is 1252 and you pass UTF8 to DBD::Pg then the data isn't right in the database?

It's wrong if the target database is WIN1252 as well, it works if the target is UTF-8. This is simply because in each case UTF-8 bytes gets transferred and they are 1:1 stored in the target, which results in UTF-8 bytes in a WIN1252 target and properly UTF-8 characters in a UTF-8 target.

I wouldn't expect it to be since postgres thinks it is 1252 but you sent utf8.

I don't send UTF-8, I give a valid UTF-8 Perlstring and DBD::Pg should handle the communication on it's own. But it doesn't, it always sends UTF-8 bytes regardless of the client encoding, but the client encoding is recognized by the server to reinterpret what it gets. If client encoding is UTF-8 it matches the data sent and the server can encode properly into WIN1252 for WIN1252 target database, but if both differ I get garbage in the target and that's what I don't understand: Why does DBD::Pg always sends UTF-8 bytes and not WIN1252 if the client encoding says so?

Regarding the docs there should be automatic conversion depending on the client encoding. But it doesn't work this way.

If you have UTF8 encoded data then set your client chrset to utf8.

But especially with having UTF-8 strings on the client DBD::Pg should be able to convert into any charset it likes. I don't understand why I'm forced to set the client encoding to some internal representation DBD::Pg sends over the wire and why this doesn't seem to be documented. The documentation says otherwise, that conversion takes place automatically between client and server and I understand that for sending data as well.

If you want utf8 back then set pg_enable_utf8 - I didn't see a deprecated warning anywhere and I can assure you it is used all over the DBD::Pg code.

Regarding this source it gets deprecated in the future, but my problem is not with reading data anyways.

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