Don't know how significant it may be (not knowing a lot about locales for Sybase) - but the only sub folder of the c:\sybase\locales folder is English.
It has CP437, CP850, ISO_1, MAC and ROMAN8 as sub folders.
game(Wookie,opponent) eq 'Wookie' ? undef $problem : remove_limbs(arms,opponent);
Comment on Re: Re: Problems with DBD::Sybase on Win2K
Unfortunately I don't know all that much about Windows systems...
Maybe you should ask on the dbi-users or sybperl-l mailing lists? (The sybperl-l mailing list is specifically for Sybase + Perl issues, subscribe at listproc@list.cren.net, with subscribe sybperl-l in the body of the message)