```{index} single: DBM_Filter::utf8 ``` # DBM_Filter::utf8 DBM\_Filter::utf8 - filter for DBM\_Filter ## SYNOPSIS ```perl use SDBM_File; # or DB_File, GDBM_File, NDBM_File, or ODBM_File use DBM_Filter; $db = tie %hash, ... $db->Filter_Push('utf8'); ``` ## DESCRIPTION This Filter will ensure that all data written to the DBM will be encoded in UTF-8. This module uses the Encode module. ## SEE ALSO [DBM\_Filter](../DBM_Filter.md), [perldbmfilter](https://perldoc.perl.org/perldbmfilter), [Encode](../Encode.md) ## AUTHOR Paul Marquess pmqs@cpan.org