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in reply to Re: printing Chinese, Japanese, french Text in excel using perl
in thread printing Chinese, Japanese, french Text in excel using perl

@All : Thank you! I just did it by using the decode function in Encode module. 
use Encode qw(decode encode); 
$str = decode("utf8",$str);

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This did it all! Thanks again!

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