Thanks so very much for your time and patience.

I get GOOD output now; what did the trick is setting
binmode(STDOUT, ':encoding(utf8)');

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That stopped the strange behaviour. I think the "îâ" being displayed was rather the exception then the right thing. And it was the virgility of the Paletino Font to interpret the Wide Character, that was in the HTML-text, and not its restriction on not print î. On close watch I had gotten a Wide Character-warning as well....
When I look at the source of the page as the browser received it I see
îă
î

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rather than 
îă
î

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The "îă" in the latter case `looked` right, but realy wasn't.... Thanks again for helping me sort this out .

In reply to Re^6: Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by jpvdv
in thread Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by jpvdv

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