I am using ISO-8859-1 in the database and the correct encoding is being used on the clients web browser. That is why I thought that it may be an apache or mod_perl issue.
Thank you for the recommendations though and I will look into and experiment with all of them. Dan King Software Developer Canadian Resident Matching Service 613.237.0075 ext. 241 (Toll free) 877.CARMS.42 171 Nepean Street, Suite 300 Ottawa, ON, CAN K2P 0B4 www.carms.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipients and may contain confidential and or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or this information has been forwarded in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy copies of the original message. Ce message (incluant toute pièce jointe) s'adresse uniquement au(x) destinataire(s) prévu(s) ou à une personne autorisée à le recevoir en son (leur) nom. Il pourrait contenir des renseignements confidentiels ou protégés. Si vous l'avez reçu par erreur, nous vous prions d'en informer l'auteur dans les meilleurs délais, de ne pas divulguer son contenu et de le supprimer de votre système. Merci. -----Original Message----- From: Clinton Gormley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 21, 2007 3:01 PM To: Dan King Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: Special characters On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:21 -0400, Dan King wrote: > I am having issues running a web application, called OTRS, that uses > DBI and DBD::Oracle. When I insert special characters, such as é or â > they show up as question marks in the database when looking at them > from sqlplus or through the web application. I am running the web app > on Apache v1 with an Oracle 10g backend both on Solaris 9. The reason > I am asking the question here is I am wondering if mod perl does any > conversion of text that is typed into a text box. > It's not that mod_perl is converting the text. It's that your program is NOT converting it. You are using conflicting character sets. For instance, maybe data in your database is stored in UTF8, but on your website you're using ISO-8859-15. You need to decode all text coming into your Perl program, and encode it again on the way out. Have a look at this tutorial I wrote about using UTF8 with MySQL - may help. http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=620803 Clint
