#!c:/perl/bin/perl

use strict;
use Template;
use CGI qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use DBI;
#use POSIX qw(locale_h);

#setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.CP1252");

$CGI::POST_MAX = (1024 * 100);  # max 100K posts
$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS = 1;  # no uploads

my ($dbh, $sth);
my $Error_Message = "\nThere Was A Problem Connecting To The Database\
+n";
my $dbusername = 'user';
my $dbpassword = 'password';
my $dsn     = 'my_dsn';

my $cgi = new CGI;
my $query = shift; # get command line param

$query ||= $cgi->param('q') unless defined $query; # unless got comman
+d line param, grab cgi param

# if query param was not set, use default
unless ( $query ) { $query = "none"; }

$query =~ /([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/g;
$query = $1;

$dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$dsn", $dbusername, $dbpassword,
                        {'RaiseError' => 1, 'PrintError' => 1}
                     ) ||  die "$Error_Message $DBI::errstr";

my $sql = qq{select T2.item_num c1, T1.desc_1 c1, T2.on_hand c3 
               from item T1, item_w T2
               where T2.item_num='$query' and T1.item_num = T2.item_nu
+m}; 
 
$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
$sth->execute() || die $sth->errstr;

my @results;

while (my @ref = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
                # 0=item_num,      1=desc_1,        2=on_hand
  push (@results, $ref[0] . ", " . $ref[1] . ", " . $ref[2]);
}

$sth->finish();
$dbh->disconnect();


my $tt = Template->new({INCLUDE_PATH => '../src'}) || die Template->er
+ror(), "\n";

my $vars = {
    results => \@results,
   query => $query,
};

print $cgi->header(-type=>"text/html");
print $tt->process('elite_inventory.tt', $vars) || die $tt->error(), "
+\n";
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I tried setting the locale in perl, but that didn't help. Also, nowhere I could find where to set the locale for the ODBC Informix driver (I looked in Administrative Tools - Data Sources (ODBC)).