in reply to Re: Correct Locale for brazilian portuguese (or French!)
in thread Correct Locale for brazilian portuguese (or French!)

I issued the command you said, and I have all these: 
pt_BR
pt_BR.iso88591
pt_BR.utf8
pt_PT
pt_PT@euro
pt_PT.iso88591
pt_PT.iso885915@euro
pt_PT.utf8

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I am using the pt_PT.iso88591 that it works with a string I type in the cgi script but does not in a string extracted from a .xls file with the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel module. How come??

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Re^3: Correct Locale for brazilian portuguese (or French!)
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 20, 2005 at 23:48 UTC

    You probably need to encode/decode whatever encoding that XLS is using. Most likely, it's UTF8. So you should probably check the Encode module to decode from utf8 to pt_BR.iso88591.

    Remember - just because you're running in a locale doesn't mean the data you're reading is in that locale. :-)

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