Yeah man. Pass the word along BTW. If you can publish any non-english
documentation on this it would sure help us out a lot. We can always help
with hosting it.
Thanks,
Andy
On 8/1/03 1:12 PM, "Xuemin Guan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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