I have been struggling for some time with the excel problem.I have Russian characters in my excel file (2003 version) and I want to save it to a csv.But the problem is whenever I do it instead of Russian characters I am getting ??????. After going through various forums I found out that the problem is with MS excel.

So Now I was wondering,if I could write a VB script which would read the strings from the required cells, covert them to UTF-8 encoding and store it in a text file. I have 2 problems here:

1. Is my solution feasible or not? I have no idea if it can be done or not? Any pointers would be help full. I have trawled through net and couldn't find anything.
2. As I am completely zero with VB scripting, can some body help me with a sample code please?

Most importantly, if someone knows a better way of doing it please let me know.

Thanks