note Anonymous Monk Hi I've got a little problem with reading unicode characters from an Excel Sheet, I thought use utf8; would do the trick, but my cells contain only question marks instead of the unicode characters from the perl point of view. Text => ??? Value => ??? Value2 => ??? This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread, from ActiveState. I tried it with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel; before, same result. Feels like I'm forgetting something important :-\ 153486 153486 5