Hi, I am lost and need new ideas, please!
I have a DB, mysql, 5.x
I can read utf8 (Umlaute like ä ö ü or cyrillic like йцуке)
I can write Umlaute etc. without problem
I can look into the db and check the utf-codes there
I can not write cyrillic, each character is replaced by 0x3f 
my $names=$dbh->do("SET NAMES utf8");
my $charset=$dbh->do("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
my $do_sql=$dbh->do($sql);

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The problem is (probably) not in the db, because I can write cyrillic with phpmyAdmin (and read back with my script)). Pasting this sql-statement into my script does not work, though. I am definitily passing utf-encoded string to 'do'. DBI::data_string_desc says: 'UTF8 on, non-ASCII, 99 characters 105 bytes'

What kind of silly mistake could I be doing?

Wolfgang

In reply to Can't write cyrillic to DBD::mysql by Wolfgang

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