Actually I do prefer RCn type tags. I went with the existing naming because
that's how it came out in the build and I was too lazy to change it.
-- Glen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: german Special character
> 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
> >>(€).
> >>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
> >>>
> >>--
> >>GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
> >>http://www.gmx.net
> >>
> >--
> >http://www.superlinksoftware.com
> >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!
> >The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to
> >vote.
> >-Ambassador Kosh
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
