in reply to Re^2: qq sql - umlaut isssue
in thread qq sql - umlaut isssue

UTF8 format is used already

But is it used everywhere as I suggested?

I concur with the anonymous monk above that $updatetable is probably not a utf8 character string, but a byte string. Where has that variable come from? Was it read from a file? If so, have you checked that the file was opened in utf8 mode?

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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