Thanks so much for looking into my problem!

What I get when I dump the database data is the third possibility: (in both cases: isolated "î" and "îã")

259: PV = 0x18d736c "\304\203"\0
238: PV = 0x18ecffc "\303\256"\0
That means it is UTF-8 all the time. So I've learned that the data from the base is correct. But the weird thing is: when I print the î to STDOUT (to get it to go to the browser) it is turned into xEE.... In a CMD box it shows as a Euro-sign (could be handy...) and in the browser it doesn't show but as a square, that is: Paletino Linotyope, the TTF that supports a big char repertoire, doesn't like it. If I look in the source of the HTML page FROM the browser it says î. But when it is accompanied by the ã, than it shows...

If I would make a workaround to change \xEE back to \303\256 (and all the rest), I cannot, at that time, see the difference in the two î's - its only in OUTPUTTING, so it seems, that the isolated î is offered at the browser/STDOUT in iso-latin-1 form... can you shed more light on this?

In reply to Re^4: Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by jpvdv
in thread Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by jpvdv

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