Recently I finished (more or less) converting a Perl/CGI/MySQL website application to use UTF-8 throughout.

The CGI module and the DBI module currently have lousy character encoding support, so I created Perl packages to fix them (relatively) transparently.

Here’s how, and here’s my code:

UPDATE: I’ve just updated the code based on others’ feedback, for which, many thanks. See comments below. (Jan 2007)
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I recently managed to get my server firewall to allow NFS requests from clients on my local network. It was a bit of a pain, so in case you’re suffering similar pain, I’ve written up my solution.
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