What character set is your Oracle session using? Sounds like Oracle is stripping characters out. What does a trace reveal?
-----Original Message----- From: Vorce, Tim (T.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 09:26 To: dbi users perl.org Subject: bytes in dbi Currently, I have inserted a data entry in the database (oracle) that contains an extended character Pr\351nom to be exact. I tried use utf8 (appears to be for source text), and use bytes, but still whenever the data is selected from oracle using dbi, I get back Prenom, which is not the same thing... How do I tell dbi to not convert the data to us ASCII??? Tim Vorce Ford Motor Company [EMAIL PROTECTED]