使用Perl的Spreadsheet :: ParseExcel将Excel文件中的亚洲（日语/中文）字符提取为TSV格式

Question

Friends, I am preparing a TSV file from excel file, containing Chinese (special) characters as follows - The Seonjeongneung ... Jeonghyeon (貞顯王后, 1462–1530) .....

I have tried using perl CPAN's Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::FmtJapan. But no success. These characters are appearing as ?? in the TSV file, when opened in VIM.

I also tried " binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; " and " binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(cp932)'; "

Please help me out, finding a way to extract information from Excel sheets and getting into TSV format.

PS : Excel allows direct save as TSV, but the output was screwed up there as well

Answer 1

I just exported your sample text perfectly from OpenOffice Calc, just by choosing the "Save as .csv" option and choosing UTF-8 as format. I'd be very surprised if Excel can't do the same. Have you considered the possibility that VIM / your console doesn't support Chinese characters correctly or that it's set to use a font that doesn't include Chinese characters? To check for this kind of error, open your .csv or .tsv file in your web browser. Web browsers will do anything to correctly display a file, including changing fonts as necessary.

If you want, send me the file you need to export and I'll check if there's anything weird about it. Could be one of the native Chinese encodings (gb or big5) instead of Unicode.