I am the current maintainer of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. Try the FmtJapan formatter in parse() as follows: 


    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    use strict;
    use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
    use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan;

    my $parser    = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
    my $formatter = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan->new();
    my $workbook  = $parser->parse('file.xls', $formatter);

    if ( !defined $workbook ) {
        die $parser->error(), ".\n";
    }

    for my $worksheet ( $workbook->worksheets() ) {

        print "Worksheet name: ", $worksheet->get_name(), "\n\n";

        my ( $row_min, $row_max ) = $worksheet->row_range();
        my ( $col_min, $col_max ) = $worksheet->col_range();

        for my $row ( $row_min .. $row_max ) {
            for my $col ( $col_min .. $col_max ) {

                my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell( $row, $col );
                next unless $cell;

                # Do something with $cell->value() and remember to enc
+ode
                # any output streams if required.

            }
        }
    }
    __END__

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Ignore that fact that it says FmtJapan, it is a general purpose Unicode formatter as well.

--
John.

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

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