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in reply to Re: I'm having a lot of trouble getting UTF-8 output via Perl/DBI on OS X
in thread I'm having a lot of trouble getting UTF-8 output via Perl/DBI on OS X

$dbh->do("SET NAMES 'utf8'");

That works! Thank you!

So, what's going on? It's actually MySQL auto-converting from UTF-8 when I never asked it to?