I can't get the right "بېيجىڭ" from the excel file which contains three cells in first row: بېيجىڭ 北京 Beijing 

use Win32::OLE;

#Win32::OLE->Option(CP => $Win32::OLE::CP_UTF8);

sub hex_dump_cell {
  my ($sheet, $row, $col) = @_;
  print unpack('H*', $sheet->Cells($row, $col)->{'Value'});
  print "\n";
}

{
    my $Excel = Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application')
            || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');

    my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($file);
    my $WorkSheet = $Book->Worksheets($sheet);

    # 
    # Text: بېيجىڭ
    # Output: 3f3f3f3f3f3f [ FAIL! ]
    hex_dump_cell($WorkSheet, 1, 1);

    # Text: 北京
    # Output: b1b1bea9 [ MBCS/CP936/GBK ]
    hex_dump_cell($WorkSheet, 1, 2);

    # Text: Beijing
    # Output: 4265696a696e67 [ ASCII ]
    hex_dump_cell($WorkSheet, 1, 3);
}

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I try to use 'Excel.Application' in Python with win32com: 

xlApp = Dispatch("Excel.Application")
xlBook = xlApp.Workbooks(1)
>>> xlBook.Sheets(1).Cells(1,1).Value
u'\u0628\u06d0\u064a\u062c\u0649\u06ad'
>>> print _ # xlBook.Sheets(1).Cells(1,1).Value
بېيجىڭ
>>> print xlBook.Sheets(1).Cells(1,2).Value
北京
>>> print xlBook.Sheets(1).Cells(1,3).Value
Beijing
>>>

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How can I do it with Win32::OLE?

In reply to Extracting Chinese characters from Excel by puti

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