note andal <p> Well, I would consider using "Encode::decode_utf8" very wrong here. At least from your previous messages it followed, that the data inserted into database was in UTF-16 encoding, so when you apply "decode_utf8" function to it, you create a mess and nothing else. Of course this function does not hurt any of pure ASCII data. </p><p> You should use "Encode::decode("UTF-16", $_)". </p> 913179 913705