I am reading from two files, one an excel->csv converted and a pure excel one and want to compare two cells. These are in greek and they truly **ARE** the same. By this I mean 
if($cellvalue1 eq $cellvalue2){print "are the same\n";} else {die "not
+ the same\n";}

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and it says they are the same Yes, when I do 
$worksheet{1}_>write($row,$column1,$cellvalue1,$format);
$worksheet{1}_>write($row,$column2,$cellvalue2,$format);

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one prints correctly and the other one gives strange chavaters. What can be wrong here? The version is 2.20 and it's perl 5.8.9 on XP(I know, not my choice) Activestate build 826

In reply to WriteExcel unicode question by demis

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