Thanks for the suggestion.

I created a small test spreadsheet with two entries:

Fundación

ФОРСУНОК

The Encoding method returns 1 (8bit ASCII or single byte UTF-16) for the Spanish text and 2 (UTF-16BE) for the Russian text.

I also modified the TextFmt routine in FmtDefault.pm to print the value of the parameter $sCode. It was undef for the Spanish text and UTF16-BE for the Russian text. So the routine just returns the Spanish text since $sCode is undef, but formats the Russian text (which gets mangled) as UTF16-BE.

sub TextFmt($$;$) {
    my($oThis, $sTxt, $sCode) =@_;
    if((! defined($sCode)) || ($sCode eq '_native_')) {
        print STDERR "$sTxt/sCode " . (defined($sCode) ? "is _native_"
+ : "undefined") . " - returning text\n";
        return $sTxt;
    };
    
    # Handle utf8 strings in newer perls.
    if ($] >= 5.008) {
        require Encode;
        print STDERR "$sTxt/$sCode; returning text with UTF-16BE encod
+ing\n";
        return Encode::decode("UTF-16BE", $sTxt);
    }
    
    print STDERR "$sTxt/$sCode; formatting with pack/unpack\n";
    return pack('U*', unpack('n*', $sTxt));
    #return pack('C*', unpack('n*', $sTxt));
}

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In reply to Re^2: Handling variety of languages/Unicode characters with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel by richb
in thread Handling variety of languages/Unicode characters with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel by richb

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