No because they see the 1.5 and say "its 1.5" .  Lets use the 1.5-rc1 
nomenclature in the future.  Its more familiar and other jakarta 
projects use it.  I left it alone because it seemed to pedantic to worry 
about but its been upgraded to a "many-mails-producing issue".  ;-)

-Andy

Glen Stampoultzis wrote:

>Specifying -dev-YYYYMMDD is not enough?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "poi users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:51 PM
>Subject: Re: german Special character
>
>
>Thats not 1.5 thats a pre-1.5 version.
>
>Glen, I was afraid of that.  In the future we need to set these names
>more appropriately.
>
>In the current development version of HSSF it does not handle custom
>formats.  So if its not in HSSFDataFormat then its going to resolve to
>"General".
>
>-Andy
>
>On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 03:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Helllo,
>>
>>i'm using verison 1.5.0.
>>
>>Instead of the different special characters always is the same symbol
>>(&#128;).
>>Is that a problem of the data format i'm using?
>>
>>cs.setDataFormat(HSSFDataFormat.getFormat("($#,##0_);[Red]($#,##0)"));
>>
>>thank you,
>>
>>pelom
>>
>>>Which version are you using?
>>>
>>On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 08:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I begin to operate  with POI, in order to generate Excel documents from
>>>Oracle databases.
>>>
>>>The first test were successful.
>>>
>>>However i have noticed that the German special characters (like �, �,
>>>�, �) are not correctly represented in the Excel documents.  Where is
>>>
>this
>
>>>problem
>>>localized?
>>>
>>>thank you,
>>>
>>>pelom
>>>
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>http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound
>Document
>                            format to java
>http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html
>- fix java generics!
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>vote.
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>
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