[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. fa8d644f8ca59a43056e5eae668ff1699d36be24

[Michael Rubinsky]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Michael Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>
>> Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Vilius ?umskas <vilius at lnk.lt>:
>>>
>>>>>> I remember some discussion had been had about tracking down the
>>>>>> problems that Jan and Michael were seeing - where is this? My recent
>>>>>> experience is that SET NAMES is definitely the way to go and that
>>>>>> things aren't doing what you think they are without it, so I'd like
>>>>>> to resolve this and get that functionality back in.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, if someone comes up with a failing unit test for the Share or Db
>>>>> library, I'll definitely take another look. But at the moment all
>>>>> charset relatet tests pass just fine.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know how to write a unit test but I just tried Horde4-git  
>>>> today and as said before current implementation works only with  
>>>> utf-8 charset. Any other charsets are failing. Just tried with  
>>>> cp1257 and Cyrilic charsets and getting question marks instead of  
>>>> needed characters.
>>>>
>>>> | Administrator | horde      | identities      |  
>>>> a:1:{i:0;a:6:{s:16:"default_identity";i:0;s:9:"from_addr";s:0:"";s:8:"fullname";s:15:"Vilius ?umskas";s:2:"id";s:21:"Standartinis apra?as";s:10:"identities";s:6:"a:0:{}";s:10:"properties";N;}}  
>>>> |
>>>
>>> Can you write up some simple code using Horde_Db that demonstrates  
>>> the problem? I can take care of turning it into a unit test.
>>
>> FWIW, Vilius' earlier email in this thread really clarified things  
>> for me, and filled in the holes that I was missing regarding what  
>> was going on between horde <--> mysql, and I think it makes sense  
>> to (re)add it.  The problems that I think I had with it was due to  
>> corrupt/incorrectly encoded data that existed in the database(s) I  
>> was testing. I also posted a link to an article I found that I  
>> think explained why I was having these difficulties. If needed, I  
>> can dig up the link again.
>
> Was this it? http://www.bluebox.net/news/2009/07/mysql_encoding

Yup. That's the one :)

mike

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