On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 16:34:48 -0000, in perl.unicode you wrote: > Don't lose more time over this. It seems there is some kind of problem with > the recognition of the encoding from other Office apps. > Its rather surprising that Notepad regosnizes the characters properly and > Word and Access don't.
Would it maybe help to add a BOM (byte order mark) at the beginning of the file? Anyway, I suppose you can now ask more questions on a Word or Access list; the Perl part appears to work now, as far as I can see. Cheers, Philip