On close watch I had gotten a Wide Character-warning as well....

That doesn't jive with what you said earlier. To get a wide character warning, you need to have a wide character, yet you said the output you got from Dump didn't have [UTF8 "..."], so no wide characters.

binmode(STDOUT, ':encoding(utf8)');

binmode(STDOUT, ':encoding(utf8)');
is a speed hack for
binmode(STDOUT, ':encoding(utf-8)');
The former skips some checks, but doing so opens up a security vulnerability. Don't use the former on untrusted text. In fact, don't use the former.
(I mistakenly used utf8 in my earlier post, sorry)

When I look at the source of the page as the browser received it I see

I wouldn't use view source for this at all. Look at the actual bytes of the source. You should see two bytes for each of those chars if the page uses the UTF-8 charset.

In reply to Re^7: Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by ikegami
in thread Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl by jpvdv

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