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¦ Console ¦ <<-encode_utf8()--- ¦ strings ¦ <<-decode_utf8()--- ¦ MySQ
+L DB ¦
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+-----

    CREATE TABLE test_db.test ( string VARCHAR(50) ) CHARACTER SET utf
+8;

    use Encode qw( decode_utf8 );
    my $string      = <>;
    my $utf8_string = decode_utf8($string);

   use Encode qw( decode );
   my $iso_8859_string = <>;
   my $utf8_string     = decode('ISO-8859-1',$iso_8859_string);

    use utf8;         # Tells Perl that the script itself is written i
+n UTF-8

    my $utf8_string = "UTF-8 string with special chars: ñ æ ô";

    use DBI();
...
                            {mysql_enable_utf8 => 1}
    );

    $dbh->do('INSERT INTO test_db.test VALUES(?)', $utf8_string);
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    $dbh->do('SELECT string FROM test_db.test LIMIT 1');
    my $new_string = $dbh->fetchrow_arrayref->[0];

    use Encode qw( encode_utf8 );
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    binmode (STDIN,':utf8');
    print $new_string;

    use Encode qw( encode );
    print Encode::encode('ISO-8859-1', $new_string);