in reply to Re^3: Malformed UTF-8 character error after fetching data from Postgresql
in thread Malformed UTF-8 character error after fetching data from Postgresql
If you don't have a test/demo case to back it up, you'd be better off not trusting your "instinct". Data::Dumper is actually pretty good about avoiding and clearing up confusion (unless of course you don't know how to read its output).