title: how to deal with japanese word using python xlrd
body: <p>this is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>#!/usr/bin/python   
  #-*-coding:utf-8-*-   
  
  import xlrd,sys,re
  
  data = xlrd.open_workbook('a.xls',encoding_override="utf-8")
  a = data.sheets()[0]
  s=''
  for i in range(a.nrows):
      if 9&lt;i&lt;20:
          #stage
          print a.row_values(i)[1].decode('shift_jis')+'\n'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it show :</p>
  
  <pre><code>????
  ????????
  ??????
  ????
  ????
  ????
  ????????
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>so what can i do ,</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>