In Sybase Japanese data columns are encoded in Shift-JIS encoding.

We are retrieving this data using DBI.
use DBI qw(:sql_types);

 if ( @row = $dbFOX_sth->fetchrow_array ) {
                 ( $sInstrumentNameJ, $sInstrumentShortJ )    = @row;

When we print this data in unix console it comes as junk.

After we get this value in a variable we pass this to a stored proc which inserts data in Oracle Nvarchar2 data type field.

Here it comes as inverted ?.

Please advise.

I guess, we'll have to go step by step. First, add "use Encode;". After you've obtained the values from DB, check if they are converted to internal perl encoding using

print Encode::is_utf8($sInstrumentNameJ), "\n";
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If this produces "1", then the value is converted to perl's internal form and we should check how you output it to the terminal. If this produces empty string, then the value is not converted by the driver. In this case you have to convert it manually.

In either case, we have to know which locale is active in your terminal emulator. Normally, it shall be some UTF-8 locale, but who knows. Please provide output of "locale" command.

Also, if the "is_utf8" function produces empty string, it would be good to provide here the hexdump of the value you get from the database. Using this way for example

print unpack("H*", $sInstrumentNameJ), "\n";
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And also the Japanese text it should correspond to.

is_urt8 is returning nothing and output of unpack is 81698a94816a8bc9976d.

We tried one more function find_encoding of Encode module and output is Encode::XS=SCALAR(0xaad27d0).

W are not getting actual output when we use encode and decode fucntins.

Output of locale command is as below
LANG=C

LC_CTYPE="C"

LC_NUMERIC="C"

LC_TIME="C"

LC_COLLATE="C"

LC_MONETARY="C"

LC_MESSAGES="C"

LC_PAPER="C"

LC_NAME="C"

LC_ADDRESS="C"

LC_TELEPHONE="C"

LC_MEASUREMENT="C"

LC_IDENTIFICATION="C"

LC_ALL=

Please sugegst where we are going wrong.

Thanx,
Prafull

Please see points 2 to 5 of my reply.