--- lib/Strix.pm	2008/06/16 22:17:06	185
+++ lib/Strix.pm	2008/06/17 10:11:46	188
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@
 
 	my $dbh = DBI->connect( $dsn, $database->{user}, $database->{passwd} ) or die "$DBI::errstr\n";
 
+	# force database to send us back UTF-8 no metter what it's encoding
+	$dbh->do("set client_encoding='utf-8'");
+	$dbh->{pg_enable_utf8} = 1;
+
 	$instance_dbh->{$instance} = $dbh;
 
 	warn "## instance_dbh = ",dump( $instance_dbh ) if $debug;