I am beginning to think that this is not a Windows/Solaris difference, but a difference between perl 5.6.1 and 5.8.2.

Possibly. The Unicode handling code in perl was totally redone between those releases. There were tricks you had to do in 5.6, but 5.8 should make it completely transparent.

Sorry, I don't have many more insights to offer than that.

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In reply to Re^5: DBD:ODBC does not return characters with ascii value > 128 correctly (5.8.2 on Solaris -> 5.6.1 on Windows works) by hardburn
in thread DBD:ODBC does not return characters with ascii value > 128 correctly (5.8.2 on Solaris -> 5.6.1 on Windows works) by Sandy

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