A module is using DBI to access a Microsoft®-Jet
data base engine.
"dbi:ADO:Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=${path};"
As far as I know, the data base engine stores text using UTF-8.
Moreover, I have the habit of using utf-8 within my perl
scripts, i.e., I encode my perl scripts with utf-8 and I
read and write utf-8 files.
Now it seems as if the texts I get from DBI were encoded
with ISO-8859-1. Could it be possible that DBI is converting
the UTF-8 obtained from the data base to ISO-8859-1?
Possibly it considers ISO-8859-1 to be the "default client
charset"? I would prefer to get to utf-8 from my data base.
How can I get the utf-8 text stored in the data base?
I already have tried to find some information about this,
but to no avail. Looking for "UTF-8" in the DBI-manpage does
not help and also regarding "DBI:Ado" I can not find a
solution.
Of course, I could convert ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, but only
for characters that can be represented with ISO-8859-1.
