utf8 encoding in Perl and MySql

Question

my database (MySql) has a utf8_general collation. I am accessing data from database and showing a webpage (developed in Perl), it is showing Swedish characters (ä,å,ö) with a di

Answer 1

Here is the complet spec :

http://search.cpan.org/~capttofu/DBD-mysql-4.038/lib/DBD/mysql.pm#mysql_enable_utf8

Additionally, turning on this flag tells MySQL that incoming data should be treated as UTF-8. This will only take effect if used as part of the call to connect(). If you turn the flag on after connecting, you will need to issue the command SET NAMES utf8 to get the same effect.