kennethk's advice worked, although I needed to set the ora_charset attribute to 'WE8ISO8859P15' since that is the default charset of the Oracle DB.

I definitely understand that the characters you see are not necessarily the characters stored. The reliable way of seeing what was in the Oracle DB was to use the RAWTOHEX SQL function. It's a bit hard to read (no spaces) using SQL*Plus, but I suppose you could read it into your Perl script and print it out better.

On the Perl side, Data::Dumper shows an escaped character if the charset isn't set: e.g. "resum\x{e9}", where e9 corresponds to "e with acute accent mark". With ora_charset specified, it correctly displays the UTF-8 text.

And then there is whether your console displays the characters correctly. My main console program doesn't, but I have another one that does.

Thanks for the help!

In reply to Re: DBD::Oracle - Character Encoding Conversion by Zygomax
in thread DBD::Oracle - Character Encoding Conversion by Zygomax

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