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#
# A simple example of writing some Unicode text with Spreadsheet::WriteExcel.
#
# This example shows UTF16 encoding. With perl 5.8 it is also possible to use
# utf8 without modification.
#
# reverse('�'), May 2004, John McNamara, [email protected]
#


use strict;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;


my $workbook  = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel->new('unicode_utf16.xls');
my $worksheet = $workbook->add_worksheet();


# Write the Unicode smiley face (with increased font for legibility)
my $smiley    = pack "n", 0x263a;
my $big_font  = $workbook->add_format(size => 40);

$worksheet->write_utf16be_string('A3', $smiley, $big_font);


# Write a phrase in Cyrillic
my $uni_str = pack "H*", "042d0442043e002004440440043004370430002004".
                         "3d043000200440044304410441043a043e043c0021";

$worksheet->write_utf16be_string('A5', $uni_str);


$worksheet->write_utf16be_string('A7', pack "H*", "0074006500730074");





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