I've got a script which exports Word documents to HTML. It works well for the most part but when there are checkboxes in the content they don't appear in the HTML version.

The word document definitely has different characters, because I can see (not literal characters, my ASCII-art version of the characters):

[X] Yes
[ ] No

In the original content.

When it gets converted to HTML, all I get, for both [X] and [ ] chars, is (hex) C2A0, which I believe is just "non-breaking space".

Is there anything I can do about this? I have the latest version of Win32::OLE as far as I can see, 0.1712, but that's five years old.

Is there a flag I can set, is it a Unicode thing, is there some other approach to this? Any ideas gratefully received.

In reply to Win32::OLE and Word checkbox characters by Cody Fendant

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