--- perl: | use Compress::Zlib; %params = ( filter_store_key => \&my_compress, filter_store_value => \&my_compress, filter_fetch_key => \&my_decompress, filter_fetch_value => \&my_decompress, ); sub my_compress { my $s = shift; utf8::encode($s); return Compress::Zlib::memGzip( $s ) ; } sub my_decompress { my $s = Compress::Zlib::memGunzip( shift ) ; utf8::decode($s); return $s; }