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

You need to set mysql_enable_utf8 on connection:

 my($dbh) = DBI->connect(
     'dbi:mysql:test',
     'user',
     'password',
     {
         mysql_enable_utf8 => 1,
     }      
);