Hello folks,
I'm using the latest and greatest DBD::mysql 4.001 and connect to the
database with the "mysql_enable_utf8" flag set.
I noticed that the UTF-8-bit in perl is set correctly for data fetched from
columns with the collations utf8_general_ci and utf8_unicode_ci, but not for
the collation utf8_bin (which is currently the only case-sensitive collation
for UTF-8).
I opened a bug for this issue at
but didn't get a reaction yet so I thought I'd bring it up here, too.
I looked at the source code, but it merely seems to call
sv_utf8_decode() in dbdimp.c line 3559.
I'm not sure why this fails with utf8_bin collation. Perhaps
the data isn't even of type MYSQL_TYPE_STRING with this collation?
Regards,
-Sven Neuhaus