Re^2: writing Arabic text in Excel

Thanks for your response! However, I'm not able to install Unicode::Map8 through 'ppm' on my Windows 2000 machine. It complains: "Searching for 'Unicode::Map8' returned no results. Try a broader search first." I'm however sure the module is present in the 'C:\Perl\lib' directory. Please advise.

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Re^3: writing Arabic text in Excel by ff (Hermit) on Apr 04, 2006 at 03:49 UTC
I haven't gone further than the following, but googling with `perl unicode map8 ppm` leads to an alternative site of ppm's which seems to have something built on Aug 1, 2003. Elsewhere(?) I notice several ppm's that are built for 5.6 This is G o o g l e's cache of http://apache.hoxt.com/perl/win32-bin/ppmpackages/ as retrieved on Feb 26, 2006 09:28:24 GMT.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: writing Arabic text in Excel by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Apr 04, 2006 at 08:02 UTC
I'm not able to install Unicode::Map8 through 'ppm' on my Windows 2000 machine. If you are using Perl 5.8 you can use the core Encode module to convert between encodings. See also the perluniintro and perlunicode manpages for more information. -- John.	[reply]