I'm trying to read Unicode strings from an Excel(tm) sheet, unfortunately all I'm getting is '???' instead of the the 3 letter Unicode string. I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 and in the beginning of my script you will find:
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use utf8;

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then I use the usual 
my $cell = $oWkS->{Cells}[$iR][0];
my $section=$cell->Value;

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as this didn't work I also tried: 
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use Cwd;
use Win32::OLE;
use Win32::OLE::Variant;
use Win32::OLE::Const 'Microsoft Excel';
use utf8;

but $worksheet->Cells($iR,1)->{'Value'}

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returns the same '???' as did the previous version. (And yes, I did {use bytes; print length($value) } to see if it's not just a terminal problem. )
Looks like I'm forgetting about something :-\ .

In reply to reading Unicode from Excel by nagilum

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