Hello Monks.

I'm trying to insert utf8 strings on a mysql database using DBI, I think the problem is on DBI/Perl because the equivalent code worked fine on PHP on this same machine and same database. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;

binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

my $dbo = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:testdb:127.0.0.1:3306','','') or die
+ $!;
$dbo->do('SET NAMES utf8');
$dbo->{'mysql_enable_utf8'} = 1;

my $str = "\x{72d0}\x{306e}\x{5de5}\x{4f5c}\x{5ba4}";

print "$str\n";
my $s = $dbo->prepare("INSERT INTO test VALUES(?);");
$s->execute($str);

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As you can see, I tried some solutions I found out there already, but none of that worked. The code prints:
狐の工作室
but on the test table:
+-----------------+
| testcol         |
+-----------------+
| ?????           |
+-----------------+

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the mysql server version is 5.1.41, DBI is 1.615 and perl is 5.12.1
I am out of ideas already..what could be the problem ?

In reply to Inserting UTF-8 on Mysql using DBI by Fox

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