2026-01-27 20:40:02.998212+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Ugh. Two FastCGI Perl scripts. One is inserting UTF-8 characters into the Postgres database correctly, one is biffing it. I cannot bloody well find the difference between the two.
Some days I regret not re-coding the entire thing in C.
[ related topics: Perl Open Source Software Engineering Databases hubris ]
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