Break the problem down! I suggest you forget about reading from HTML for now, and try to construct a minimal script that does nothing apart from write some IPA into an Excel file.

You can take as your starting point something like "h\x{025b}\x{02c8}lo\x{028a}" (your phonetic "hello" as a Perl string). That will completely rule out any possibility that something is going wrong at the HTML stage.

If you can get that working, you can easily plug it into your main program. And if you can't get it working, then it'll be small enough that you can simply post the entire script here, and we can try and help you figure out where it's going wrong.

In reply to Re: Writing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols to Excel? by Porculus
in thread Writing International Phonetic Alphabet symbols to Excel? by cypress

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.