Storing and converting UTF8 Arabic in MySQL DB using Perl
Hi,
I need a little help.
I initially had a text file with Arabic in it encoded using the windows-1256 charset. I used "iconv -f WINDOWS-1256 -t UTF-8 -o foo-out.txt foo.txt" to convert the file to UTF8.
The file now contains the following arabic:
مَنْ صَلَّى صَلَاةً لَمْ يَقْرَأْ فِيهَا بِأُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ فَهِيَ خِدَاجٌ
In a browser this utf8 data is displayed perfectly as Arabic (with the correct utf-8 charset encoding), however I need to store this data as native Arabic in a MySQL DB (4.1.18) but can't seem to convert and store the utf8 data as Arabic shown below.
مَنْ صَلَّى صَلَاةً لَمْ يَقْرَأْ فِيهَا بِأُمِّ الْقُرْآنِ فَهِيَ خِدَاجٌ
I am using Perl 5.8.0 to complete this task with the following commands:
$dbh->do("set character set utf8");
$dbh->do("set names utf8");
And also have the DB tables to the correct charset as well.
I have also tried the following MySQL function in Perl:
$test_utf8 = "CONVERT(_utf8'$data' USING utf8)";
But nothing seems to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated?
Nasser
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2006 07:24AM by Nasser Ahmed.
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