Re: plperl: enable UTF-8 support

Newest patch applied.  Thanks.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> It seems the plperl code has changed in the areas you are modifying.
> Would you update your patch against current CVS?  Thanks.
>
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> David Kamholz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Here's a patch I added against plperl, originally against beta5, now
> > against rc1. It simply checks with GetDatabaseEncoding() if the current
> > database is in UTF-8, and if so, sets the UTF-8 flag on the arguments
> > that are passed to perl. This means that it isn't necessary to
> > utf8::upgrade() every string, as perl has no way of knowing offhand
> > that a string is UTF-8 -- but postgres does, because the database
> > encoding is specified, so it makes sense to turn the flag on. You
> > should also be able to properly manipulate UTF-8 strings now from
> > plperl as opposed to plperlu, because otherwise you'd have to use
> > encoding 'utf8' which was not allowed. It could also eliminate some
> > unexpected bugs if you assume that perl knows the string is unicode. It
> > is enabled only for perl 5.6 and higher, so earlier versions will not
> > be affected.
> >
> > I have been assured by crab that the patch is quite harmless and will
> > not break anything. It would be great to see it in 8 final! :-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dave
> >
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