That character in red looks like an en-dash ("–") to me. There is no en-dash character in ISO-Latin-1 — but only in Microsoft's extended character set, Code Page 1252, at position 0x96. In Unicode, its character code is 0x2013.

I'm not sure exactly what is happening here, but I'm quite convinced this is the cause of your problem. Check what character set the Excel file is in, I would think it's in 16-bit Unicode. Perhaps Spreadsheet::ParseExcel simply drops the upper byte, leaving you with the control character 0x13, chr(19).

Copying the block character out of the HTML page and pasting it into my text editor shows that it is indeed a chr(19). So that explains what is going on, but that still doesn't fix it. It looks like a lot of work; likely you should somehow try to convert the character set from Unicode to CP-1252/Windows.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Problem by bart
in thread Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Problem by Anonymous Monk

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