On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, apollo wrote:
So there is of course a font being used to "show" me the b, which means POI understands that the cell value is "\U0b32"
I think it's the other way around. The excel file stores the literal B value. There's then a font which when it sees the letter B displays a beta sign (much like how windings displays funky characters when you type normal letters in). POI is simply showing you what's in the file, the magic is entirely within the windows fonts...
I'd suggest you try setting a real font (not a special symbol one), then input a beta, that should store the correct value for you.
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