in reply to wrong encoding using WWW::Mechanize

Sounds like you are receiving UTF-16 and treating each byte as a character. Try changing 

print OUTFILE $mech->response->content();

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to 

print OUTFILE $mech->response->decoded_content();

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If that doesn't work, you'll need to decode it yourself (probably with decode 'UTF-16', but decode 'UTF-16le' or decode 'UTF-16be' may be necessary).

If Spreadsheet::WriteExcel doesn't encode it for you, you'll need to encode the data you place in Excel. I don't know which encoding it expects.

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Re^2: wrong encoding using WWW::Mechanize
by Lawliet (Curate) on Jan 24, 2009 at 19:27 UTC
    print OUTFILE $mech->response->content();

    to

    print OUTFILE $mech->response->content();

    (Aren't those two statements the same thing?)

    And you didn't even know bears could type.

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      hehe oops! Fixed.
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