utf8 problem.

Hello people, Here is the problem I am facing. In the following piece of code I get a customer name from the database and append a pound symbol to the customer name and update the same in the database. The NLS_LANG parameter is set to AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8DEC (western European character set) When I query the database to see if the name has been updated correctly I see some garbage value appended to the name instead of just a pound symbol. Then I did some research to find out the version oralce DBD version being used is 1.12. I found some difference between 1.12 and 1.14 relating to unicode documentation. All I want to know is whether this was a bug in 1.12 which was fixed in the later version of 1.14 and will an upgrade to 1.14 fix this problem. Could anyone please confirm me on this? The closer I could get was to find this link http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-Oracle/Changes#___top. However the work around was to use "use Encoding" (Which is commented out in the following code) in perl which fixed the problem. Cheers, Anand.

use strict; use encoding 'utf8'; use atadb; use vars qw($opt_u); my $db = atadb::connect($opt_u); my $sql = " SELECT NODE_NAME FROM CUSTOMER_NODE_HISTORY WHERE CUSTOMER_NODE_ID = 9295370 "; my $csr = $db->prepare($sql) || ataerr::dbprepare($db); $csr->execute() || ataerr::dbexecute($db); my $node_name = $csr->fetchrow; $csr->finish; $node_name = 'wre'; my $pound = " \xc2\xa3"; print "Pound =>$pound\n"; my $node_name_upper = "\U$node_name\E".$pound; $node_name.=$pound; print "Node name".$node_name."\n";; print $node_name_upper."\n"; my $sql1 = "UPDATE CUSTOMER_NODE_HISTORY SET NODE_NAME = ? , NODE_NAME_UPPERCASE = ? WHERE CUSTOMER +_NODE_ID = 9295370 "; my $csr1 = $db->prepare($sql1) || ataerr::dbprepare($db); print "Executing ... \n"; #use Encode; #$node_name = encode($ENV{PERL_ENCODING}, $node_name); #$node_name_upper = encode($ENV{PERL_ENCODING}, $node_name_upper); $csr1->execute($node_name, $node_name_upper) || ataerr::dbexecute($db); print "Committing ... \n"; $db->commit || die("commit: ".$db->errstr."\n"); $csr1->finish; $db->disconnect;