title: Special character handling when fetching data from MS SQL Server using Perl DBD
body: <p>I have an MS SQL Server 2008 Database, from which I am fetching data using perl DBD::Sybase module. But there are some special characters in the DB, like the Copyright symbol, Trademark symbol etc., which are not getting imported properly. Perl seems to change all of these special characters to a Question mark character. Is there a way to fix this?</p>
  
  <p>I have tried specifying <code>charset=utf8</code> in the connection string. The <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase-1.14/Sybase.pm" rel="nofollow">doc</a> mentions a <code>syb_enable_utf8 (bool)</code> setting, but whenever I try that, I get an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Can't locate object method "syb_enable_utf8" via package "DBI::db"
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