From: Saravanan Krishnan <saravanankrishnan@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T16:21:08+09:00
Subject: Re: parceexcel and fields in xls file

Sandro Paganotti wrote:
> I think it could be some sort of strange character encoding, try this:
> 
> utf8(row.at(0))
> 
> where utf is defined as follow:
> 
> def utf8(val)
>       val.to_s('Latin1').unpack("C*").pack("U*")
> end
> 
> this last function depends heavily on which encoding are you using... 
> try
> some different
> encoding strings to find the one that fix your problem.
> 
> Sandro
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Vidya Ramachandren <


Sandro's thought is absolutely right. Still if you have problem let me 
know.

Saravanan
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