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[Felipe Gasper <felipe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks like your input, with “Ö” as a single byte \xd6, is not UTF-8. Any Unicode code point above 127 requires at least 2 bytes in UTF-8. So if MySQL is expecting UTF-8, it may be choking on what it sees as invalid input.

-F

> On Jun 19, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Dave Wreski <dwreski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use perl-DBD to write a buffer of text that contains an email with umlauts and other non-ASCII characters to a joomla database and having a problem.
> 
>    DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Incorrect string value: '\xD6sterl...' for column `lsv5webstage`.`xuxgc_content`.`fulltext` at row 1 at /home/alerts/scripts_linstage/AdvisoryTest.pm line 373.
> 
> I'm not familiar enough with how encoding works to fully understand what the problem is. This is a fedora29 system with mariadb-10.3.12 and joomla-3.9.
> 
> Apparently the '\xD6' is an O with an umlaut in "Sebastian �sterlund". I read something about utf8 not being able to handle 4-char, but I don't fully understand.
> 
> I found the following reference online which talks about changing the encoding type from utf8 to utf8mb4, but the tables all appear to already be using that encoding:
> 
>    > SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name LIKE 'character\_set\_%' OR
>    Variable_name LIKE 'collation%';
>    +--------------------------+--------------------+
>    | Variable_name            | Value              |
>    +--------------------------+--------------------+
>    | character_set_client     | utf8mb4            |
>    | character_set_connection | utf8mb4            |
>    | character_set_database   | utf8mb4            |
>    | character_set_filesystem | binary             |
>    | character_set_results    | utf8mb4            |
>    | character_set_server     | utf8mb4            |
>    | character_set_system     | utf8               |
>    | collation_connection     | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
>    | collation_database       | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
>    | collation_server         | utf8mb4_unicode_ci |
>    +--------------------------+--------------------+
> 
> execute failed: Incorrect string value: '\xD6sterl...' with mariadb and perl DBD
> a novice perl programmer
> I'm not sure it's helpful, but this is the insert statement I'm using in my perl code:
> 
>        my $sql                 = <<EOF;
>        INSERT INTO xuxgc_content (title, alias, introtext, `fulltext`, state, catid, created, created_by, created_by_alias, modified, modified_by, checked_out, checked_out_time, publish_up, publish_down, images, urls, attribs, version, ordering, metakey, metadesc, metadata, access, hits, language)
>        VALUES ($title, "$title_alias", $introText, $fullText, $state, $catid, $created, $created_by, $created_by_alias, $modified, $modified_by, $checked_out, $checked_out_time, $publish_up, $publish_down, $images, $urls, $attribs, $version, $ordering, $metakey, $metadesc, $metadata, $access, $hits, $language);
>        EOF
> 
>        my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
>        $sth->execute();
>        db_disconnect($dbh);
> 
> I don't recall having this problem in the past, and this script has been in use for quite a while.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
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