[SlimDevices: Beta] 18702 - does not handle special characters

[Michael Herger]

> Is SC's underlying db code getting a little long in the tooth?  We've

Not in the case you mention. It was related to encoding - something which touches all and everything in our code (path, file names, settings, web interface, values stored in the DB etc.).

> been through hash->SQLite->MySQL now and I'm wondering if what we've

That particular case even dated back from SQLite times. And it would have been broken in the hash times, too.

> got here under the hood is spaghetti code, especially given DBI's level
> of abstraction.  Is it time to at least start considering a db-refactor
> branch and effort?

This is definitely something we'd like to see for SC8. Though the spaghetti code metaphor doesn't fit in with the OO DB abstraction ;-)

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Michael