in reply to No such thing as high ASCII characters
in thread XLSX to CSV with high ASCII characters

The xls2csv the OP refers to either executes xlscat (which uses ReadData) or uses ReadData directly when using the -a option.

Maybe the OP just wants the --utf-8 (or -U) option to either of the two tools. (xls2csv passes on the options to xlscat)


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

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