Hi all, Firstly, I released Dancer::Plugin::Database 1.11 tonight containing bugfixes, mainly for the new quick_select() method. I've also a new developer version, 1.11_01, which contains code to automatically enable UTF-8 support if the application's charset setting is set to UTF-8 (default for newly-scaffolded apps) and the database engine is one for which the code knows how to enable UTF-8 support (it's database driver-dependent). It should currently work for SQLite, Postgres and MySQL. I would greatly appreciate if anyone who is working with UTF-8 data in their database could give this a try and drop me a mail to let me know how it works for you, and whether you have any problems. There's a new config setting in case anyone needs to disable this behaviour - setting auto_utf8 to a false value will disable it. I thought long and hard about this, and I think the expected behaviour is that it should Just Work, so having it enabled by default seems the appropriate choice to me. Assuming all is well, I plan to release this as 1.20 some time next week. So, as I said, if you're working with UTF-8 data in your database, I'd greatly appreciate feedback on whether this new feature works well for you. Cheers! Dave P -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)