in reply to UTF-8, Oracle and Perl life
Well I've do not have experience using Japanese or UTF8, but
you mention oraperl. I hope you are using DBI/DBD and not
oraperl which is a very very old oracle interface for perl4.
The current versions for DBI/DBD are 1.30/1.12, using these
will give you the best chance for the UTF8 select to work.
STH
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