From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2006-06-28T10:26:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Unicode roadmap?

Tim Bray wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Daniel DeLorme wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to point out that MySQL has m17n strings, and it rocks.
> 
> I am often unable to get Unicode strings from Perl into MySQL and back 
> out without breaking them.  Haven't tried the Ruby/MySQL combo; does it 
> work better? -Tim

I've never had any problems. You just have to make sure the client correctly 
tells the server what encoding it is using. The only annoyance is that MySQL 
will silently change inconvertible characters to '?', but that's part of the 
MySQL design philosophy rather than inherent to m17n strings.

Daniel