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You may want to try this patch for DBD::mysql, which claims to implement the correct writing of utf-8 data to MySQL.
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Re^2: DBI handling special chars like accented ones
by RnC (Sexton) on Jan 09, 2006 at 22:20 UTC
    Problem: I'm currently using DBD-mysql-3.0002, and the patch is for version 2.9008 (obviously it failed when I tried to apply).

    Any ideas apart from a possible downgrade?