Character encodings and databases

[James Laver]

On 19 Jun 2014, at 15:58, Andrew Hill <london.pm at welikegoats.com> wrote:

> 1. Data is not being stored in the database as UTF8 - not sure how to check when Perl is the only tool available to query it
> 2. Conversion is occuring in the DBD driver

Yes. I don’t know the oracle version of it, but many DBD adapters provide a method to set the charset, or a magic SQL command you can execute.

James