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in reply to Handle UTF-8 with DBI

If your database was created specifying utf8 as charset, everything you will get from it will be valid utf8 but not marked as utf8; so you only need to switch on the utf8 flag on. nothingmuch posted a link to an interesting patch for DBD::mysql at node UTF8 vs SQLite.

HTH, Valerio