note Sithiris <p>Well I solved my problem using</p> <code>pack "U0C*", unpack "C*", ($cell->{val});</code> <p>I'm not entirely sure what that does, but I'm guessing it unpacks the characters into its octets and then repackages it up as a Unicode character... Anyway whatever it does it worked so now all the characters are displayed correctly.</p> <p>Thank you for your help :) </p> 929072 929892