package DBM_Filter::utf8 ; use strict; use warnings; use Carp; our $VERSION = '0.01'; BEGIN { eval { require Encode; }; croak "Encode module not found.\n" if $@; } sub Store { $_ = Encode::encode_utf8($_) if defined $_ } sub Fetch { $_ = Encode::decode_utf8($_) if defined $_ } 1; __END__ =head1 DBM_Filter::utf8 =head1 SYNOPSIS use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, or GDBM_File, or NDBM_File, or ODBM_File use DBM_Filter ; $db = tie %hash, ... $db->Filter_Push('utf8'); =head1 DESCRIPTION This Filter will ensure that all data written to the DBM will be encoded in UTF-8. This module uses the Encode module. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L =head1 AUTHOR Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org