Does DBD::DB2 have an option to enable automatic decoding?

Asked Feb 26 '23 at 13:37

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Does DBD::DB2 have a switch that performs automatic decoding from UTF-8, such as mysql_enable_utf8mb4 in DBD::mysql?

asked Feb 26 '23 at 13:37

sid_com

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codepage conversion ( from database codepage into the application codepage) is normally performed by the Db2-driver (i.e in this case the ODBC driver being used to access the Db2-database that underlies DBD::DB2). This is normally invisible to the application. – mao Feb 26 '23 at 13:39
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@mao, Sound like you're saying the underlying C library would it convert it UTF-8 -- and that's the case for other databases as well incl the aforementioned MySQL with appropriate options -- but that's says nothing about whether DBD::DB2 produces decoded text or not. Presumably sid_com checked and it doesn't? A complete absence of `utf8` in the module's source supports that. – ikegami Feb 26 '23 at 18:10

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