Balance short term laziness against long term laziness.  Meaning how 
will the umpteenth message that says "I'm using 1.5".... and then you 
find its a bug that has been fixed between now and 1.5...come to find 
out they are using dev-1.5-xxx.  Plus this will probably result in a FAQ 
entry...  Just food for thought.

-Andy.

Glen Stampoultzis wrote:

>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
>>>>(&#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
>>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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