Hi there, Does anybody have experience with inserting Unicode data into an MSSQL table from perl/DBI? I am aware of the N'' syntax (insert into table values(N'ça')) but that is basically for "literal" Unciode text. I have a string read from XML, wich is utf-8 encoded. If I then write the string to a file and open it with a Unicode-'aware' editor I see the text OK. But both when I use 
   $insStr = qq{insert into table (string) values(?)};
   $sthIStr = $dbh->prepare($insStr);
   $sthIStr->execute($UTF8_txt);

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or 
  $insStr = qq{insert into table (string) values(N'$UTF8_txt')};
  $dbh->do("$insStr");

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The "long" appearantly unencoded ASCII-value is in the database-column (which is datatype nvarchar, btw). Real example: fiÅŸiere instead of fiþiere (Romanain for Files). What I am I doing wrong?

In reply to Unicode insert into mssql from perl DBD by Anonymous Monk

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