I think the perl script has the character as a utf8 byte sequence, and that is what is going into the database. No problem with that.

When you say "it comes out in mysql as ...", I expect you mean something like "when I use an xterm or an MS-DOS prompt window or some other thing where I can run mysql and issue queries interactively, the display I get is ...".

This would be expected assuming that your xterm or MS-DOS prompt window or whatever is displaying the data as if it were ISO-8859-1 or CP-1251 or some similar single-byte legacy character set. If you had a utf8-capable display window where you could see the output from mysql (e.g. a browser), it would show the utf8-encoded character correctly.

(update: just to be clear -- it's a display issue, not a data or perl issue per se)

(another update -- sorry I didn't happen to notice this sooner: if you set your browser to UTF8 and look at your own post, you'll see the single-character currency mark that I presume you intended to have in the database.)

In reply to Re: Perl mySQL and £ signs by graff
in thread Perl mySQL and £ signs by davepreece

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