Am Mittwoch, den 09.11.2005, 07:25 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> We should be universally handling the issues mentioned here: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252 by intercepting character 
> differences and writing them out properly.  Thus HSSF should force 
> 8859-1 encoding but should then kind of do a replace on the characters. 
>   If someone wants to contribute I can point them in the right direction.

Um, no. Enforcing ISO 8859-1 as character code would be of limited use
only. These reason is that like Windows Codepage 1252 it represents only
a limited set of characters. UTF-8 is the preferred character encoding.
However, POI should not forbid to create strings in other character
encodings, be it ISO 8859-1, cp1252 or whatever.

By the way, HPSF does a nice job of supporting a lot of different
character encodings. At least there are no problems I am aware of. I
suggest you have a look at it.

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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