Data defined inside Catalyst app or in templates has correct encoding and is diplayed well, but from database everything non-Latin1
is converted to ?
. I suppose problem should be in model class, which is such:
use strict;
use base 'Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema';
__PACKAGE__->config(
schema_class => 'vhinnad::Schema::DB',
connect_info => {
dsn => 'dbi:mysql:test',
user => 'user',
password => 'password',
{
AutoCommit => 1,
RaiseError => 1,
mysql_enable_utf8 => 1,
},
'on_connect_do' => [
'SET NAMES utf8',
],
}
);
1;
I see no flaws here, but something must be wrong. I used my schema also with test scripts and data was well encoded and output was correct, but inside Catalyst app i did not get encoding right. Where may be the problem?
EDIT
For future reference i put solution here: i mixed in connect info old and new style.
Old style is like (dsn, username, passw, hashref_options, hashref_other options)
New style is (dsn => dsn, username => username, etc)
, so right is to use:
connect_info => {
dsn => 'dbi:mysql:test',
user => 'user',
password => 'password',
AutoCommit => 1,
RaiseError => 1,
mysql_enable_utf8 => 1,
on_connect_do => [
'SET NAMES utf8',
],
}
In a typical Catalyst setup with Catalyst::View::TT and Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema you'll need several things for UTF-8 to work:
- add Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding to your Catalyst app
- add
encoding => 'UTF-8'
to your app config
- add
ENCODING => 'utf-8'
to your TT view config
- add
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
to the <head>
section of your html to satisfy old IEs which don't care about the Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8
http header set by Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding
- make sure your text editor saves your templates in UTF-8 if they include non ASCII characters
- configure your DBIC model according to DBIx::Class::Manual::Cookbook#Using Unicode
- if you use Catalyst::Authentication::Store::LDAP configure your LDAP stores to return UTF-8 by adding
ldap_server_options => { raw => 'dn' }
According to Catalyst::Model::DBIC::Schema#connect_info:
The old arrayref style with hashrefs for DBI then DBIx::Class options is also supported.
But you are already using the 'new' style so you shouldn't nest the dbi attributes:
connect_info => {
dsn => 'dbi:mysql:test',
user => 'user',
password => 'password',
AutoCommit => 1,
RaiseError => 1,
mysql_enable_utf8 => 1,
on_connect_do => [
'SET NAMES utf8',
],
}
This advice assumes you have fairly up to date versions of DBIC and Catalyst.
- This is not necessary:
on_connect_do => [ 'SET NAMES utf8' ]
- Ensure the table|column charsets are UTF-8 in your DB. You can achieve things that sometimes look right even when parts are broken. The DB must be saving the character data as UTF-8 if you expect the entire chain to work.
- Ensure you're using and configuring Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode::Encoding in your Catalyst app. It did have serious-ish bugs in the not too distant past so get the newest.