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in reply to Re^2: OT? Character set issues with MySQL/CGI::Application
in thread OT? Character set issues with MySQL/CGI::Application

If you can convert it from UTF-8 to Latin-1 and it then works, it means that the data you get from the data is UTF-8, and not Latin-1 as you think.

In case of doubt print it out on the console and use hexdump to check.

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