Re: [HACKERS] plperl and regexps with accented characters - incompatible?

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> Yes, we might want to consider making utf8 come pre-loaded for
>> plperl. There is no direct or easy way to do it (we don't have
>> finer-grained control than the 'require' opcode), but we could
>> probably dial back restrictions, 'use' it, and then reset the Safe
>> container to its defaults. Not sure what other problems that may
>> cause, however. CCing to hackers for discussion there.
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> UTF8 is automatically on for strings passed to plperl if the db
> encoding is UTF8. That includes the source text. Please be more
> precise about what you want.
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> BTW, the perl docs say this about the utf8 pragma:
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> Do not use this pragma for anything else than telling Perl that
> your
> script is written in utf-8.
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> There should be no need to do that - we will have done it for you. So
> any attempt to use the utf8 pragma in plperl code is probably broken
> anyway.
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Ugh, in testing I see some nastiness here without any explicit require.
It looks like there's an implicit require if the text contains certain
chars. I'll see what I can do to fix the bug, although I'm not sure if
it's possible.

cheers

andrew