in reply to Re^4: db prepare failed:invalid character error : Perl DBI - Help plz
in thread db prepare failed:invalid character error : Perl DBI - Help plz

That's just two steps:
  1. use utf8; in your scripts
  2. Tell your text editor to safe the file as utf-8. In my editor (vim) this works by typing :se fileencoding=utf-8, if you use a different one read its manual.