Hello Mike,
No, you should actually include them in the Params section, otherwise they're not used.
OK, put them under the "Params", nothing changed...
Latin1_General is not a character set name, or at least not one recognized by Perl's Encode, it's a MS SQL Server Collation name. Please try iso-8859-1 instead.
Tried with both of them: Params => { SourceCharset => 'iso-8859-1', DestCharset => 'utf-8', and Params => { SourceCharset => 'utf-8', DestCharset => 'utf-8', No way to get some *written* output (you took a look at the output shown in my first post). I understand you know a bit about SQL, therefore I'm bothering a bit further: would it change if I'd use ODBC connection instead of Sybase (like I'm doing now)? Would it be worth a try? If yes, I'd need some help because I already tried to connect via ODBC but keep getting failures (when testing with "isql" command). Instead, tsql command works pretty well! Kind regards and thanks again. Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: flavio@piramide.ch