Is it possible to import or read texts from an Excel file that include =
UTF-8 texts?

Robert

Re: Import UTF-8 text from Excel by Man-wai

Man-wai
Tue Mar 27 09:21:30 CDT 2007

RobertVanGeel wrote:
> Is it possible to import or read texts from an Excel file that include UTF-8 texts?

check out strconv()

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Re: Import UTF-8 text from Excel by RobertVanGeel

RobertVanGeel
Tue Mar 27 15:21:49 CDT 2007

So how is strconv() going to get my values from Excel?

I tried reading the xls file with CreateObject("Excel.Application") and =
successive calls to read the sheet but they come in as ???.
The same goes for Import From, all values are tranlated to ????

Robert

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> RobertVanGeel wrote:
>> Is it possible to import or read texts from an Excel file that =
include UTF-8 texts?
>=20
> check out strconv()
>=20
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