[Koha] bulkmarcimport and unicode data

[R Hariram Aatreya]

hi All,

I am trying to import MARC data (in unicode Tamil)
into koha using bulkmarcimport.pl

However, bulkmarcimport.pl  does not like 3 characters
(U+0B88, U+0B89, U+0BC8).
Whenever these 3 characters are encountered, the rest
of the string (subfield value) is gobbled and
is missing from the database.

But, bulkmarcimport.pl imports correctly
if these 3 characters do not occur in
the MARC data to be imported.

Any idea whats going on ?

Thanks,
hari.