[FX.php List] Encodings

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Hi everyone!

I'm using the output from FX.php to create excel files, but it seems  
FX outputs DCR (decimal character representation [like &#09880].
(I'm using lots of different languages mixed together, like chinese/ 
russian/english)
Excel only likes utf-16. When I use the php Spreadsheet/Write/Excel  
PEAR class, it works fine, but that dies if the excel is too big.
The perl module (upon which the php module is based) can handle such  
sizes, but it doesn't convert like the php module does.
Question:
Is there a way to tell FX to output utf-16 instead of DCR (also know  
as NCR numerical char rep)?
Does anyone know a way to convert from DCR to utf-16? In php or perl,  
it doesn't matter.

thanks,

Dana L. Coe