Guys, My perl script reads spanish characters from an excel sheet. And writes the spanish characters on to an output file. But the output file has the octal equivalent of the unicode characters. I just want to have hexa-decimal equivalent of unicode characters. How can I do that ? I am using ParseExcel Module. I am running the script on Sun OS 5.9. My Perl version is 5.8.0. Cheers, Ramesh.