I am trying insert a German Text with German Alphabet in an Excel Cell. however what i have stored in a variable and what is printed in XL Cell are different. i assume it is something to do with character encoding. i tried few things but could not figure out a way to insert proper German string in XL. below is my code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
#use strict;
use Encode qw(encode decode);

my $enc = 'utf-8'; 
my $germanText = 'Fräsen und ndk (Kamera - Fräsaufnahme)';

my $germ_str = decode($enc, $germanText);
my $g8txt = encode($enc, $germanText);

print encode($enc, $germanText); 
print encode($enc, $germ_str); 


$xl_form = "C:/tmp/german.xls";
use Win32::OLE qw(in with);
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';

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

    $Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = 1;
    $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($xl_form);
    $Sheet = $Book->Worksheets("DRC");
    
    $Sheet->Range("B2")->{Value} = $germanText;            
    $Sheet->Range("B3")->{Value} = $germ_str;            
    $Sheet->Range("B4")->{Value} = $g8txt;

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but in XL B2-B4 cells has the following string

B2 = Fräsen und ndk (Kamera - Fräsaufnahme)

B3 = Fräsen und ndk (Kamera - Fräsaufnahme)

B4 = Fräsen und ndk (Kamera - Fräsaufnahme)

how do i insert German text properly in XL?

In reply to german Alphabet by shreedara75

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