note EverLast Actually, I was faced with the same problem.<p> After fixing other issues (thank god for PerlMonks!), I found the cure:<p> <code> use Win32::OLE qw(CP_UTF8); ... # Work in unicode! $Win32::OLE::CP = CP_UTF8; ... </code> You can use Unicode::String to unpack() the string to look at each unicode char (which was what I had to do). <p>Cheers <br> ---Lars 153486 201701