[ic] Problems with utf8 and Loc

[Jon Jensen]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, René wrote:

>>  I stumbled into problems when having special characters (åäö and ÅÄÖ)
>>  in the locale-table. They won't get translated correctly, but o get
>>  onstead characters like Ã¥ ä ö Ã? Ã? Ã..
>>
>>  Is there any other setting than MINIVEND_DISABLE_UTF8=0 that i should
>>  "turn on"?
>>
>>  I'm using the latest git-version from github. The database in postgres
>>  9.4 is defined with UTF8 encoding.
>
> Forgot to mention that in have in catalog.cfg these settings
>
> Variable MV_UTF8 1
> Variable MV_HTTP_CHARSET UTF-8

Hi, René!

When using Postgres, you should also have this set in catalog.cfg:

DatabaseDefault PG_ENABLE_UTF8 1

which tells DBD::Pg to decode text from the database as UTF-8 in Perl.

Jon


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