Thanks for your hint, unfortunatelly my interpretation of it wasn't succesful.

I apologize, I'm new to this editor so the code was "lost".

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Std;
use Win32::OLE;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;
use encoding "cp1250";
use Encode;

my $Excel;
my $Book;
my $Sheet;
my @Test;
my $Test;

@Test=encode("cp1250",@Test);

#Excel file FileToRead.xls contains the following Slovenian characters:
# Line 1 Column 1: Čč (capital and small letter C with caron)
# Line 1 Column 2: Šš (capital and small letter S with caron)
# Line 1 Column 3: Žž (capital and small letter Z with caron)

$Excel=Win32::OLE->GetActiveObject('Excel.Application') || Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');
$Book=$Excel->Workbooks->Open('c:\batch\Pisarna\Clouseau\FileToRead.xls');
$Sheet=$Book->Worksheets(1);

# characters read into @Test are correct push(@Test,{
Col1=>$Sheet->Cells(1,1)->{'Value'},
Col2=>$Sheet->Cells(1,2)->{'Value'},
Col3=>$Sheet->Cells(1,3)->{'Value'},
});

$Book->Close;
$Excel->Close;

my $BookOut=Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new('c:\batch\Pisarna\Clouseau\FileWritten.xls');
my $SheetOut=$BookOut->add_worksheet('test');

# writing Slovenian characters directly
$SheetOut->write(0,0,"Čč");
$SheetOut->write(0,1,"Šš");
$SheetOut->write(0,2,"Žž");

# read from xls file through @Test
$SheetOut->write(1,0,"$Test1->{Col1}");
$SheetOut->write(1,1,$Test1->{Col2});
$SheetOut->write(1,2,$Test1->{Col3});

# strings defined in above lines 41, 42 and 43 are written into FileWritten.xls correct:
# Line 1 Column 1: Čč (capital and small letter C with caron)
# Line 1 Column 2: Šš (capital and small letter S with caron)
# Line 1 Column 3: Žž (capital and small letter Z with caron)

# strings read into @Test are written into FileWritten.xls incorrect
# Line 2 Column 1: capital and small letter C with grave (can't be written)
# Line 2 Column 2: small outlined square (can't be written)
# Line 2 Column 3: small outlined square (can't be written)

_END_

In short, Slovenian characters written directly are correct but those read from xls file and written through @Test aren't correct. Something weird happens to them on their way from array through Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.

(I work in Windows XP Professional version 2002, I use Perl 5.8). Thanks for your hint.

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