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

I don't know where that description is coming from, but it suggests a serious misunderstanding of the terms being used.

You can say "single-byte ASCII" (which is redundant, since ASCII by definition uses only 7 bits), but it's strange to say "8bit ASCII", because ASCII does not refer to values in the 0x80-0xFF range, and people usually speak of "8-bit characters" as being in contrast to ASCII (because 8-bit characters are the ones in the range 0x80-0xFF).

Saying "single byte UTF16" is simply nonsensical. It's an oxymoron.

In reply to Re^3: Handling variety of languages/Unicode characters with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel by graff
in thread Handling variety of languages/Unicode characters with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel by richb

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