I am back to web-dev after a break to start a restaurant (now coding for the restaurant instead of cooking all the time).

Anyway I believe I am having a problem revolving around utf-8 encoding (breaking dbix internals with data going in) - maybe in the way I have the dbic setup.  I also suspect that this is something that would cause me bigger problems in the future.

Here is the relevant parts of my config.yaml - this would be my first guess as to the source - this is my first dancer project.

charset: "UTF-8"

# template engine
# simple: default and very basic template engine
# template_toolkit: TT

template: "simple"
session: YAML
#template: "template_toolkit"
##  engines:
#    template_toolkit:
#      encoding:  'utf8'
#      start_tag: '[%'
#      end_tag:   '%]'

plugins:
  Auth::RBAC:
    credentials:
      class: SanteriaAuth
  DBIC:
    default:
       dsn: dbi:mysql:Santeria
       user: root
       pass: secritpass
       schema_class: My::Schema
       options:
         mysql_enable_utf8: 1
  Database:
            driver: 'mysql'
            database: 'Santeria'
            host: 'localhost'
            port: 3306
            username: 'root'
            password: 'secritpass'
            connection_check_threshold: 10
            dbi_params:
                RaiseError: 1
                AutoCommit: 1
            on_connect_do: ["SET NAMES 'utf8'", "SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'" ]
            log_queries: 1

Other possible problems:

I am running Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS as my platform - so I would hope to have necessary perl versions, mysql versions to make that work.  However I will happily dig in deeper in that area if needed.

Maybe a mysql configuration?

Any help appreciated - if you live near Portland Oregon I'll buy you a burrito.

from here on down may not be necessary reading for someone familiar with the utf8 issues if the stuff above is ok then maybe deeper digging is required.