To what format is unicode converted by FmtDefault

Posted on 2008-11-13 05:37:06-08 by wecacuee

Hi,
Pardon me, if I am wrong somewhere since I am a newbie.

I was trying to parse a string which looks like 'Kaye R. O'Leary' in Excel File.
It results in:
Cell->{_Value} = "Kaye R. O\x{2019}Leary" (#I know this is unicode)
Cell->{Val} = "\c@K\c@a\c@y\c@e\c@ \c@R\c@.\c@ \c@O\cY\c@L\c@e\c@a\c@r\c@y" (#don't know abt this)

Can anyone please tell me,
what is character encoding Cell-$gt;{Val} is using?
Thanks for your time
Vikas

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Posted on 2008-11-13 08:17:26-08 by jmcnamara in response to 9290

Re: To what format is unicode converted by FmtDefault

what is character encoding Cell-$gt;{Val} is using?

It is UTF-16LE, the Unicode encoding used internally in Excel.

John.
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Posted on 2008-11-13 08:18:42-08 by wecacuee in response to 9290

Re: To what format is unicode converted by FmtDefault

This question do not concerns Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
Cell->{Val} in not in any kind of encoding.(it may be 'latin1' or any other )
\c is called control character.
Cell->{_Value} is not necessirily a unicode string. It just contains a wide character which is denoted in hexadecimal format.
look perlop for more details
Thanks,
vikas

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Posted on 2008-11-14 05:12:10-08 by wecacuee in response to 9292

Re: To what format is unicode converted by FmtDefault

according to perlunitut

Text strings, or character strings are made of characters. Bytes are irrelevant here, and so are encodings. Each character is just that: the character. Text strings are also called Unicode strings, because in Perl, every text string is a Unicode string.

Cell->{Val}, Cell->{_Value} both are unicode strings
Thanks
Vikas

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