NVARCHAR error with ODBC

Hi all,

I'm accessing HANA from a Perl script using DBI, DBD::ODBC and hdbodbc. When a select ought to return non-ASCII characters, it raises the error

DBD::ODBC::st fetchrow_array failed: [unixODBC][SAP AG][LIBODBCHDB SO][HDBODBC] General error;-10427 Conversion of parameter/column (9) from data type NVARCHAR to ASCII failed (SQL-HY000)

AFAICT, the error is in the HDB ODBC driver, because the DBD::ODBC can handle unicode. Is there a workaround for this?

-- Micha