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> 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! :-) David Kamholz
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