You've only shown us perl code in your question, nothing about your mysql setup, which is equally important.

For example, if you open a terminal, first check that it works with UTF-8 (I assume Linux in my examples): 

$ echo Kärnten 
Kärnten
$ echo Kärnten | hexdump -C
00000000  4b c3 a4 72 6e 74 65 6e  0a                       |K..rnten.
+|
00000009

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If it looks any different, that's your first problem.

Second step, try mysqldump $your_table | grep 'CHARSET=' - does that say UTF8 as well?

Third step, try the insertion and then retrieval with mysql command line client - does that work?

Fourth step, tell me the version of your DBD::mysql module.

In reply to Re^3: UTF8 execute() parameters (DBI) by moritz
in thread UTF8 execute() parameters (DBI) by MattLG

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