RE: forcing utf8 on selected values




On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Mark Hedges wrote:

Hmm, for some reason this morning the Matrix has allowed the
selected characters to display correctly in the browser. This
doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me now.

The scalars still do not have the utf8 flag set, though.

This is really weird. All the characters display correctly in
the browser now EXCEPT what used to be a generic apostrophe,
which now comes across as this non-printable character:

U+0092 <control>

General Character Properties

Unicode category: Other, Control

Various Useful Representations

UTF-8: 0xC2 0x92
Octal escaped UTF-8: \302\222
Decimal entity reference: &#146;

Annotations and Cross References

Alias names:
PRIVATE USE TWO

But this displays fine in mysql console on my terminal.

Here I am talking to myself in public again.

Scratch that -- the original source database is corrupt and
actually has this character stored in these fields. Why they
display correctly as quotes in the terminal or when viewed in
western encoding is a mystery.

Mark
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