To use a Unicode character set in SQL, specify the character set when creating or altering a database, table, or column. For example, you can use "UTF8" or "UTF16" to indicate Unicode encoding.

print"\nNotice in the first row (which was inserted as SQL_CHAR), the UTF-8 stored in the perl scalar is mostly stored as individual characters but then you will be wondering why the few of the ...

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OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with ...