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in reply to Encoding issue from DBI to string

If you haven't tried this yet, see what happens if you change the first arg in your DBI->connect() call from this:
"DBI:mysql:$db_name1:$db_host1:$db_port1"
to this :
"DBI:mysql:$db_name1:$db_host1:$db_port1;mysql_enable_utf8=1"

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Re^2: Encoding issue from DBI to string
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 04, 2013 at 14:44 UTC
    Gave it a shot, but still no luck. :-\