Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
Good question, according to the author 'There was only a little problem with _calculateSharedStringsSizes() and _storeSharedStringsTable() functions within the Workbook.php. They did not support unicode strings.' Ewen 2009/1/15 Thodoris t...@kinetix.gr Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the same problem but after I struggled with strange characters in Spreadsheet Excel Writer for some time I wrote an article from my lessons learned: http://research.elabs.govt.nz/generating-excel-spreadsheets-with-maori-macrons-in-php/ It contains some example code, hope it helps. Ewen 2009/1/14 c...@l-i-e.com c...@l-i-e.com The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. Trivia quiz at a MySQL presentation at my Chicago PHP User Group a few year ago comes in handy! The defaults for MySQL are actually latin1_swedish as that is the native language of the original developer, (?Monty Widenus?) This charset differs in only one character (or two chars switched?) from English. It seems unlikely to produce drastic problems in iconv, but I have no idea what I'm actually talking about. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Thanks man that did it :-) . What exactly was the problem you've noticed (I am seeing a diff between the two files bu t I am not sure I fully understand)? -- Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the same problem but after I struggled with strange characters in Spreadsheet Excel Writer for some time I wrote an article from my lessons learned: http://research.elabs.govt.nz/generating-excel-spreadsheets-with-maori-macrons-in-php/ It contains some example code, hope it helps. Ewen 2009/1/14 c...@l-i-e.com The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. Trivia quiz at a MySQL presentation at my Chicago PHP User Group a few year ago comes in handy! The defaults for MySQL are actually latin1_swedish as that is the native language of the original developer, (?Monty Widenus?) This charset differs in only one character (or two chars switched?) from English. It seems unlikely to produce drastic problems in iconv, but I have no idea what I'm actually talking about. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:19:31 +0200, Thodoris wrote:
Variable_name Value
character_set_clientutf8
character_set_connectionutf8
character_set_database latin1
character_set_filesystembinary
character_set_results utf8
character_set_serverlatin1
character_set_systemutf8
What's the character set of the column you get the data from?
The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci.
I'm not sure exactly how these affect the data
returned to PHP. The 'connection' and 'results'
variables would suggest utf8. In any case, it
must be one of 'latin1' or 'utf8'.
What happens if you do:
$worksheet-setInputEncoding('latin1');
/* or 'ISO-8859-1' */
It would still be helpful to see a hexdump.
/Nisse
Since the data are in greek I can't see anything but despite that the
xls still breaks. In addition to that MS-Excel doesn't even open the
file because it thinks it is corrupted. OOffice still opens it as before
but it breaks in a certain line.
BTW As you have already guessed I am using:
$worksheet-setInputEncoding('UTF-8');
I think that it is the pear extension's problem and has something to do
with the encoding. I hex dumped the data and no curious characters
seem to be there. Moreover the line in the xls that the script breaks
the data written changes if I change the encoding.
--
Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
Hi there, I'm not sure if this is the same problem but after I struggled with strange characters in Spreadsheet Excel Writer for some time I wrote an article from my lessons learned: http://research.elabs.govt.nz/generating-excel-spreadsheets-with-maori-macrons-in-php/ It contains some example code, hope it helps. Ewen 2009/1/14 c...@l-i-e.com The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. Trivia quiz at a MySQL presentation at my Chicago PHP User Group a few year ago comes in handy! The defaults for MySQL are actually latin1_swedish as that is the native language of the original developer, (?Monty Widenus?) This charset differs in only one character (or two chars switched?) from English. It seems unlikely to produce drastic problems in iconv, but I have no idea what I'm actually talking about. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Thanks man that did it :-) . What exactly was the problem you've noticed (I am seeing a diff between the two files bu t I am not sure I fully understand)? -- Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
Thanks man that did it :-) . What exactly was the problem you've noticed (I am seeing a diff between the two files bu t I am not sure I fully understand)? -- Thodoris Yes I have previously worked on loads of Greek sites. Some how strange enough I had problems whenever I used UTF-8 to store content and even display on the web page. So I had to use default latin swedish ci in the db and also use Charset 1253 in the html meta tag to get everything displayed properly. meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=windows-1253' Thanks, V
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:01 +0200, Thodoris wrote: Hi gang, I am generating a spreadsheet using the contents of a mysql table. I guess that there is something in the data that causes iconv used in the module's script to generate this error: *Notice*: iconv() [function.iconv file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tgol/Local%20Settings/Temp/function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string in */usr/local/share/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php* on line *1547* This causes the production of weird characters in a cell in the spreadsheet and after that cell everything is printed out of order. The data in the mysql table are filtered for non-printable character before the data import. What data goes into that cell? I am selecting from a mysql table where only text and numeric data exist. Can you provide a hex dump of the data? I am no sure how to do that in that case :-( . How do you filter the data? The data are being filtered by stripping all the non-printable characters and by form validation using regxp. How do you write it to the worksheet? Using the pear extension Spreadsheet_Excel_Wrtiter. What character encoding did you set? UTF-8 /Nisse -- Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:33:25 +0200, Thodoris wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:01 +0200, Thodoris wrote: Hi gang, I am generating a spreadsheet using the contents of a mysql table. I guess that there is something in the data that causes iconv used in the module's script to generate this error: *Notice*: iconv() [function.iconv file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tgol/Local%20Settings/Temp/function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string in */usr/local/share/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php* on line *1547* This causes the production of weird characters in a cell in the spreadsheet and after that cell everything is printed out of order. The data in the mysql table are filtered for non-printable character before the data import. What data goes into that cell? I am selecting from a mysql table where only text and numeric data exist. Can you provide a hex dump of the data? I am no sure how to do that in that case :-( . ?php echo bin2hex ($theData), \n; ? What's the output of: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%' What's the character set of the column you get the data from? /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
?php echo bin2hex ($theData), \n; ? What's the output of: SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set%' Variable_name Value character_set_clientutf8 character_set_connectionutf8 character_set_database latin1 character_set_filesystembinary character_set_results utf8 character_set_serverlatin1 character_set_systemutf8 What's the character set of the column you get the data from? The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. /Nisse -- Thodoris
Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:19:31 +0200, Thodoris wrote:
Variable_name Value
character_set_client utf8
character_set_connection utf8
character_set_databaselatin1
character_set_filesystem binary
character_set_results utf8
character_set_server latin1
character_set_system utf8
What's the character set of the column you get the data from?
The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci.
I'm not sure exactly how these affect the data
returned to PHP. The 'connection' and 'results'
variables would suggest utf8. In any case, it
must be one of 'latin1' or 'utf8'.
What happens if you do:
$worksheet-setInputEncoding('latin1');
/* or 'ISO-8859-1' */
It would still be helpful to see a hexdump.
/Nisse
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Re: [PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
The charset: latin1 and the collation: latin1_swedish_ci. Trivia quiz at a MySQL presentation at my Chicago PHP User Group a few year ago comes in handy! The defaults for MySQL are actually latin1_swedish as that is the native language of the original developer, (?Monty Widenus?) This charset differs in only one character (or two chars switched?) from English. It seems unlikely to produce drastic problems in iconv, but I have no idea what I'm actually talking about. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:51:01 +0200, Thodoris wrote: Hi gang, I am generating a spreadsheet using the contents of a mysql table. I guess that there is something in the data that causes iconv used in the module's script to generate this error: *Notice*: iconv() [function.iconv file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tgol/Local%20Settings/Temp/function.iconv]: Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string in */usr/local/share/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php* on line *1547* This causes the production of weird characters in a cell in the spreadsheet and after that cell everything is printed out of order. The data in the mysql table are filtered for non-printable character before the data import. What data goes into that cell? Can you provide a hex dump of the data? How do you filter the data? How do you write it to the worksheet? What character encoding did you set? /Nisse -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
