in reply to Re^2: LATIN1 and utf8 strings, joined, mangle the LATIN1
in thread LATIN1 and utf8 strings, joined, mangle the LATIN1

So it's being output to the database instead of the screen. use open won't help you, but it still needs to be encoded.

Sorry, I don't think I can help you because I don't know enough about how database handle encodings, what the DBD expects from you and what the DBD can do for you.

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