Dear listers, There is number of requests about reading Chinese characters from Excel or text files. I had to cope with the issue and wrote a small manual about it. It might not be an optimal solution, but at least it works :-) One can download the pdf at: https://chrono-environnement.univ-fcomte.fr/personnes/annuaire/article/giraudoux-patrick?lang=en#chinese Cheers, Patrick [[alternative HTML version deleted]]