I'm not the big expert on encoding, but I think the whole encoding thing must be perfectly aligned for it to work. It is best to have the same encoding set on both the input machine/layer, the storage layer ( i.e. the database) and the output machine/layer. If somewhere in this chain of things there is a different encoding then you get "funny" characters. So if you start with "greek" encoding, you better have this all the way through to avoid problems.

Other monks much more versed in the ways of Unicode and the like probably can tell you more about it or you can have a look at perluniintro and perlunicode.

CountZero

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In reply to Re^3: datetime insertion problem by CountZero
in thread datetime insertion problem by Nik

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