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

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Tue Feb 8 21:19:06 UTC 2011


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.

Alright, I just pushed a few commits that re-add the SET NAMES call,  
including tests for both utf8 and cp1257 character passthrough. Thanks  
to everyone for the input/feedback.

-chuck


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