>I converted pdf table to excel format ( Office 2010 ) with ABBYY pdf transformer and try to generate xml file via Excel automation.
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>All Russian and Belorussian names properly seen in Excel
>РУБИНОВ Анатолий Николаевич
>Рубінаў Анатоль Мікалаевіч
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>But after this statement
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>lcell_value = osheet.Cells(i,j ).value
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>in Foxpro they are just sequences of "?". I tried to play with strconv , but didn't find a proper combination. My understanding in Excel it is UTF-16, and in xml we should end up with utf-8.

Did you try ?

?strconv(osheet.Cells(i,j ).value,2,1251,1)
?strconv(osheet.Cells(i,j ).value,2,204,2)

MartinaJ