Re: Display Japanese Characters in GtkComboBox

[Peter E Dennis <peter edwin dennis gmail com>]

> Modify your program and add "use warnings;" and check if perl complains
> about "wide characters in print".

Did this but no warnings about 'wide characters in print'.

> Add the following to your loop:
> use Endode;
> print "is kanji in UTF-8? ", (is_utf8($ref->{'kanji'}, 1) ? 'YES' : 'NO'),
> "\n";

This was interesting.  It says that all of the kanji:
is kanji in UTF-8? NO

Is there a way I can determine what encoding they are in?

> I'm afraid that this will only affect the low level communication between
> the mysql.so library and the server. What's important for your application
> is that the perl string are marked as being valid UTF-8 (perl strings have
> an internal flag for this purpose).

Thanks for this info.  Wasn't really sure if it would have any
relevance but thought I should include it.

Apart from finding out what the actual encoding is I have been able to
display the kanji in the GtkComboBox by doing the following:

    while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref)
    {
        my $string = decode("utf8", $ref->{'kanji'});
     .....
     }

Although I'd much prefer to know what encoding it actually is in, as
no doubt I'll hit similar problems when I start trying to insert
data...

Thanks for all your help so far.

Peter.