Posted in postgresql, perl, unicode Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:21:00 GMT Perl has two UTF-8 encodings, utf8 which is Perl's liberal version and UTF-8 which is a strict interpretation, aka utf-8-strict. The liberal version allows for encoded characters outside the UTF-8 character set, however you can run into problems when interoperating with applications that expect utf-8-strict, such as PostgreSQL. Here