DBD::ODBC has not even been tested with UTF-8 data. Patches/tests most welcome!!!!!!
Regards, Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Yonghui Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 4:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how can I extract String as UTF-8 under UNIX, my > data was in SQL Server Database and stored as Unicode data > > > 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. >