Hi i tried with this code but still ????? comes can you help; karthick@dgbmicro.com use OLE; use Win32::OLE 'CP_UTF8'; use utf8; Win32::OLE->Option(CP => CP_UTF8); $xlfile ="c:\\Akruti Tamil Unicode Test Vectors.xls"; ##### OLE - Excel Connection # Create OLE object - Excel Application Pointer $xl_app = CreateObject OLE 'Excel.Application' || die $!; # Set Application Visibility # 0 = Not Visible # 1 = Visible $xl_app->{'Visible'} = 0; # Open Excel File $workbook = $xl_app->Workbooks->Open($xlfile); # setup active worksheet $worksheet = $workbook->Worksheets(1); #///////////////////////////////////////////opened xls file for reading. # retrieve value from worksheet print $worksheet->Range("B2")->{'Value'};

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in thread reading Unicode from Excel by nagilum

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