For testing purposes I've put some users in an HoH

That was a good idea. However, you do not say if you have also written use utf8; in your source. Did you do that?

but I still end up with something like "K?hne" in Azure

Try posting it to something which you control rather than Azure. That way you can determine if the problem is internal to Azure or not. Even just saving it to a local file with a known encoding would do for starters.

Unicode looks big and scary the first time you have to deal with it but it's not so bad in the long run. Good luck.

(edited for typo)

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In reply to Re: Strings with umlauts and such by hippo
in thread Strings with umlauts and such by PeterKaagman

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