I don't have excel to test your script with, and I'm just beginning to get a handle on unicode, but a similar problem was recently resolved at Re^3: Perl TK character disappearing. You can't decode your cp1252 input as utf-8. You can decode it as cp1252 then save it as utf8.

If I was able to run the code, this would be my first thing to try. I like the utf8::all module. 


# this will make all filehandles and STDOUT prints be utf8
use utf8::all;   # a very simple module

# get your excel rows and decode them
 # Gives error "Cannot decode string with wide characters"
     # map { $_ = decode("utf8", $_) } @row;

# decode the cp1252 stuff properly
 map { $_ = decode("cp1252", $_) } @row;

# prints to the csv file will be utf8

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Windows-1252 characters from \x{0080} thru \x{009f} might also be useful to you.

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In reply to Re: Mixed character encoding issues by zentara
in thread Mixed character encoding issues by ddaupert

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