HPSF with codepage support
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HPSF, POI's component to read and write properties, now offers some codepage support.
It is now possible to read and write properties in a large variety of character sets,
including, but no limited to, UTF-8 and UTF-16.
I'd like to invite especially those of you who need more than the ISO 8859-1 or ISO
8859-15 character sets to test the new feature. Just checkout the CVS repository's
HEAD revision and give it a try!
In order to use a certain codepage create a property with ID 1 in a section and set
its value to the codepage number. HPSF maps that number to a character encoding name
by prepending a "cp". For example, the codepage number 1252 is mapped to the character
encoding "cp1252". Exceptions to the rule are 1200 which is mapped to "UTF-16" and
65001 which is mapped to "UTF-8". Further explicit mappings can be added easily.
Whether you can actually use a codepage depends on your Java Virtual machine and
whether it has the character encoding installed. This is probably much better with a
1.4 JVM than with a 1.3 JVM.
Please gather some experience with HPSF's codepage support and let me know!
Best regards
Rainer Klute
Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH
Dipl.-Inform.
Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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