how can I extract String as UTF-8 under UNIX, my data was in SQL Server Database and stored as Unicode data

[Yonghui Wang]

when I simply use perl DBI, DBD::ODBC to connect to the database and try to 
extract the Unicode string( 
there is Chinese, Japanese, Korea) string stored in it, the return value is 
unreadable. I wish to get UTF-8 string so that those 
double byte language can be readable.

so, what configuration I need to do to the DBI, ODBC ?

thanks

hugh wang

CM Engineer
MicroStrategy Inc.