Thanks for your help. But this doesn't work. At this stage I am outputting to the debug output terminal within Komodo. I still get question marks for hiragana and kanji.
"ascii1" is not a valid designation for any sort of character encoding. (How did you come up with that?)
I got this as output from my program. 
foreach $i (@row) {
    print(getcode($i), "\n");
    $i++;
}

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But at this point it feels like I am testing the data encoding too late. It has already been parsed? by perl and put into a Perl array.

Somewhere between: 

$sth->execute or die "Cannot execute: $DBI::errstr\n";

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and 

@row = $sth->fetchrow_array();

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is where I should be testing the encoding of my data shouldn't I? I don't know how to do this part of the program.

There is a great article at:
http://ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html

But again I was unable to adjust the information in it to suit my needs. The terminal can output the hiragana/kanji if it is already in UTF-8 encoding but I just can't get it into that encoding after I take it from MS Access.

Please a little more help.

In reply to Re^2: MS Access Input -> Japanese Output by Zettai
in thread MS Access Input -> Japanese Output by Zettai

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