Is there anything else different between the two data versions besides the schema?
Nope, same machine same, MySQL server.
When you say "with the same viewer", what is that
Navicat MySQL. Same when I export the files to Excel and look at them with that.
is your perl script running on Red Hat 9 with perl 5.8.0
Running windoze with 5.8.4
Have you tried using the "msqlimport" tool
It's a good suggestion, and I may try it if I get desperate. I'm trying to do this with Perl bc this is a friend's db that's in MS Access an is not normlized. So I'm trying to both get it into MySQL and rearrange the tables. Navicat MySQL does the import from MS Access to MySQL fine so now I'm trying to move from the schema that was imported from Access to a new refactored schema.

In reply to Re^2: Trouble with Perl MySQL Arabic by cormanaz
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