Howdy Monks. I am having a fun Saturday afternoon trying to get Perl to play nice with MySQL to move Arabic text between two schemas. Here is the relevant code chunk (source db has already been connected, etc): 
my $sqlstatement = 'select name_arabic from data';
my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
my @row;
my @cases;
$sth->execute || die "Could not execute MySQL statement: $sqlstatement
+";
while (@row=$sth->fetchrow_array) { push(@cases, [ @row ]); }
$sth->finish();

for my $i (0..$#cases) {
    my $sqlstatement = 'insert into newdb.names (arabicname) values (?
+)';
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sqlstatement);
    $sth->execute($cases[$i][0]) || die "putsql could not execute MySQ
+L statement: $sqlstatement";
    $sth->finish();    
}

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In both the existing source table and the newdb table, the column charset is set to cp1256 (which is windoze arabic). When I look at the data table in the source db with a viewer that will show that charset, it shows the arabic chars.

After running the above code, when I look at newdb.names with the same viewer, it shows question marks substituted for the arabic chars.

So it would seem that in the course of reading and/or writing the data I am hosing up the char encoding somehow. Anyone know how I can straighten it out?

Thanks...Steve

In reply to Trouble with Perl MySQL Arabic by cormanaz

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