in reply to Re^5: Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl
in thread Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl

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 .

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Re^7: Strange behaviour ODBC/Unicode in perl
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 05, 2008 at 08:44 UTC

    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.

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