pt-archiver: Wide character in print

[pservit]

When archiving table with text field error occured:

Wide character in print at /usr/local/bin/pt-archiver line 4010.

adding binmode $archive_fh, ":utf8"; fixes it

FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 amd64
perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for amd64-freebsd-thread-multi

[Baron Schwartz (baron-xaprb)]

Brian, can you triage this one?

[Brian Fraser (fraserbn)]

Hm, well, hust blindly adding :utf8 is going to break things for anyone using an old charset. Particular, most Unices (but Mac) don't enforce encoding, and neither does MySQL, so this is bound to be troublesome.

For the time being, anyone getting this should probably be running the tool with --charset utf8, or setting 'PERL_UNICODE=SAD' in their environment, or failing that as
$ perl -CSAD pt-archiver ...
or
$ perl -Mopen=:utf8 pt-archiver ...

I'm not really familiar with pt-archiver, so I'll take a look soonish and see if it makes sense to turn UTF8 on automagically.

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PT-940