Unable to properly read a binary .xls file in a unicode system.

Hello,
We are currently upgrading to ecc 6 unicode
from a non unicode ecc5 system and we have
found several problems reading files for
Excel in place (sap office intergration).
We have an excel file with macros scripted
within it and it, parts of the file are in
hebrew.
We use open dataset for input command to
provide the data to the sap integration
methods.
In ecc5, no additional parameters were
needed for the command.
In the unicode system, the file isn't read
properly even when providing codepage for
the file in legacy binary mode (I tried '1800' and '1810' for hebrew).
When compared to a non unicode system, it seems
that some of the binary data is missing and some
characters are missing and instead appear
like squares.
this leads to the file not being read at
all.
Is there any method to read the file with
the characters in it properly , or force it
to use the non unicode read method?
Best regards, Yoav

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