That did take care of the encoding error tho I don't understand why because I thought Perl was natively UTF-8. Anyway it works.

But now when I try to use that value to update a record like so:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("update userinfo set description=? where uid=$
+uid");
$sth->execute(encode('UTF-8',$userdata->[$i]->{description})) || die $
+sth->errstr;

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I get DBD::PgPP::st execute failed: ERROR:  array value must start with "{" or dimension information at character 33

This is confusing as the string is En démocratie, on a le droit d'avoir tort and character 33 is either an "a" or a "v" depending on whether it's counting form zero.

In reply to Re^2: PgPP invalid byte seqnence for encoding UTF8 by cormanaz
in thread PgPP invalid byte seqnence for encoding UTF8 by cormanaz

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