in reply to Re^2: writing Arabic text in Excel
in thread writing Arabic text in Excel

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.

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