When I select and copy a cell in an Excel spreadsheet and use Win32::Clipboard to retrieve it (see code below), the cell contents I retrieve via Get() and write to a file are not displayed correctly when I edit the file. I tried setting binmode and encoding to UTF-8 but that has no affect. How can I get copied data from Excel to come through Win32::Clipboard and display correctly as text? As always, TIA.

Steps to reproduce the problem:

1. Open Excel spreadsheet, select and copy a cell.
2. Run the sample code below.
3. Edit the output file. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Clipboard;

my $clip = Win32::Clipboard();
my $text = $clip->Get();

my $ofile = "xx.bat";
open my $fh2,'>', $ofile or die "Error opening output file $ofile: $!\
+n";
binmode $fh2, ":encoding(UTF-8)";

print $fh2 $text, "\n";

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