Hi ! Could you help me with following situation? I want to read data from MS Access database (*.mdb) via dbi and odbc. Everything is working fine. But some characters (like fractions - 1/2) are being read as '?' signs. It's strange, because fractions should be in ISO/IEC 8859-1 codepage for sure. I'm using Windows XP with English (UK) as default language, ActiveState ActivePerl 5.8.6, dbd-odbc package, MS Acess 2003 and 2007. Code: 
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:testDSN", undef, undef);
            
$dbh->{LongReadLen} = 65000;
$dbh->{LongTruncOk} = 0;

my $sql = "select * from $table_name";
my $table_records = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($sql) or die "cannot do "
+ . $sql;

#...

$dbh->disconnect;

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How can I "tell" Access to use ISO 8859-1 ? Thanks in advance, Oleg

In reply to How to set encoding for database connection with MS Access by Anonymous Monk

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