After doing some testing on this, it looks like MS uses latin1 (or something very close) internally.
I used a slightly modified version of the example script from Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, replacing the "print" with a database insert.
When processing some data from a spreadsheet into a PostgreSQL database, cells with symbols such as 0xae (ascii 92, the "registered" symbol, ®), I constantly came up against the database error:
DBD::Pg::db do failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF
+8": 0xae
After setting the client encoding to latin1 (keeping the database at UTF8):
$dbh->do("set client_encoding to latin1");
the data went in OK.
If there is a different/better way to process this, I'd be interested to know.
Update: there is a better way...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel;
my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $workbook = $parser->Parse('Book1.xls');
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");
foreach my $worksheet ( $workbook->worksheets() ) {
my ( $row_min, $row_max ) = $worksheet->row_range();
my ( $col_min, $col_max ) = $worksheet->col_range();
foreach my $row ( 1 .. $row_max ) {
foreach my $col ( $col_min .. $col_max ) {
my $cell = $worksheet->get_cell( $row, $col );
next unless $cell;
next unless defined($col_mapping{$col});
my $value = $cell->value();
utf8::upgrade($value);
... store_in_database($value); ...
}
}
}
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