Newletter draft for Jan - please review

[Glen Stampoultzis]

This will be submitted soon. Please review for correctness and completeness.


POI
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Editor: Glen Stampoultzis

* Rainer started documentation of the reading of general property set streams.
* Carey Sublette let us know about an issue surrounding incompatibilities between how Excel processes unicode. Even though unicode is the standard according to the Excel97 Developers kit it seems that Excel sometimes allows invalid characters from the Cp1252 codepage. He plans on submitting a patch.
* Jason Height has been trying to implement the DBCell and Index records.
* Andy wrote up some details on how to refactor and complete the formula parsing [1]
* Patch for custom formula palette's added by Brian Sanders
* Gump build has made a positive build of Jakarta POI using the latest release of Centipede
* Performance branch made and committed by Andy. This reduces memory dramatically and increases execution speed but still has a few things to be ironed out before a merge occurs back to the trunk.


[1] http://nagoya.apache.org/wiki/apachewiki.cgi?RefactorAndCompleteFormulaParsing


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