V,
Excel does have a SaveAs Unicode Text option (which seems to give you a Tab
separated format), but as far as I see, csv will only give you ANSI
characters.

NickHK

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Hello

The problem has been asked before but I couldn't find any satisfactory
answer. In short, I have Excel files which might contain extended
characters such as russian, chinese and others, and I want to get a CSV
out of a given sheet. From programming, that is via OLE. Is there any
decent way to do this ? I mean other than going through every cell,
hand-coding its contents to CSV and writing the file myself.

Regards
V. Simionescu