Hello, Andy, thanks a lot for the note!
Best,
Xuemin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Cell value encoding
> You did the right thing. The UTF_16 is a misnomer carried from the
earliest
> versions of POI. In 3.0 these will be renamed to "EIGHT_BIT_CSET and
> SIXTEEN_BIT_CSET" or something. The first case is useful only for US
> character sets. The only problem is how to name this concisely and
clearly
> (because there are some eight bit character sets that excel writes in 2
> bytes because Excel is a silly format).
>
> -Andy
>
>
> On 8/1/03 2:31 AM, "Xuemin Guan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello, dear all, I am having some problems dealding with
> > Japanese Characters. I set up a cell value as this:
> > cell.setCellValue("some Japanese characters go here");
> >
> > And I end up with wrong values in the generated XLS file.
> >
> > Then I looked up the POI API and souce code, and did the follow:
> >
> > cell.setEncoding((short)1);//Using UTF_16
> > cell.setCellValue("some Japanese characters go here");
> >
> > Then it worked fine. But I am not sure if this is the
> > right thing to do. Doesn't the POI/Excel supports something
> > like setting up the encoding using Shift_JS, ISO-8859-1
> > these stuff? Or I only have a choice between
> > ENCODING_COMPRESSED_UNICODE and or ENCODING_UTF_16?
> > And the thing I did was just right?
> >
> > Any hint will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Xuemin
> >
> >
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