Problem with russian characters

[GoogleCodeExporter]

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.read the .xls with any russian characters in cells.
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What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Russian chars are displayed as strange characters �����

Please provide any additional information below.
version 2.21

Please help!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by buharov....@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2014 at 11:16

Attachments:

• [sample with rus chars.xls](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/php-excel-reader/issue-193/comment-0/sample with rus chars.xls)
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