The problem may involve your method of querying data back from the table, and/or displaying the query results, as well as (or instead of) your method of inserting data into the table. It may also involve how the table is defined and how the database server is configured.

What are you using to view the table contents after the insertion? If you use a perl script, there's a chance that you can inspect the byte sequence as it comes out of the table, and that you can use the Encode module to make sure it gets interpreted correctly for use in a particular display.

I don't know about MSSQL, but I know that for MySQL, there are parameters at various levels for managing the character encoding -- for the server itself (set at start-up), for a given database, for a given table, for given fields in the table. If MSSQL provides docs on character encoding and collation, you'll need to consult that.

The particular example you give is puzzling (and I'm not sure whether the posted data accurately reflects your actual data). You might want to look at the input and output via a hex-dump tool. (You might also consider this tool, posted at the Monastery as tlu -- TransLiterate Unicode, which is helpful for referring to characters by their unicode "names" and hex codepoint values. That's the best way to talk about the data in cases like this.)

In reply to Re: Unicode insert into mssql from perl DBD by graff
in thread Unicode insert into mssql from perl DBD by Anonymous Monk

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