Re: can we specify an encoding to use with the POIFSFileSystem API ??

[Nishant Rao <kn...@hotmail.com>]

I've tried investigating this further but to no avil...does anyone know 
whether there are any limitations of POI with respect to encodings and 
charsets ?? Whats confusing is that Japanese characters are getting 
converted okay both on XP and Solaris but latin extended characters are okay 
on XP but not on Solaris ??

any ideas/suggestions would be a tremendous help !!

>From: "Nishant Rao" <kn...@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "POI Users List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
>To: poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>Subject: Re: can we specify an encoding to use with the POIFSFileSystem API 
>??
>Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:35:42 +0000
>
>hmmm...so then we're not sure what encoding gets used to open the file 
>itself huh ?!? is there some sort of workaround that anyone can think of so 
>that the correct encoding (which excel saved stuff in) is used to reopen 
>the file and preserve the data ?
>
>thanks,
>nishant
>
>>From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <ac...@apache.org>
>>Reply-To: "POI Users List" <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
>>To: POI Users List <po...@jakarta.apache.org>
>>Subject: Re: can we specify an encoding to use with the POIFSFileSystem 
>>API ??
>>Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:44:53 -0500
>>
>>Gosh, it was so long ago.  I think mainly I specified the encoding that 
>>POI was expecting in the
>>string constructors.
>>
>>-Andy
>>
>>Avik Sengupta wrote:
>>
>>>Andy had made some patches for encoding. Andy, can you make a FAQ..
>>>write up a small note on what you did for the encoding??
>>>
>>>On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 04:17, Nishant Rao wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I am running into a problem where the excel file has extended latin 
>>>>characters (eg. ßüpplíér etc). When I save the file, I'm not sure 
>>>>what encoding excel uses...
>>>>
>>>>...also when I use POI (v1.8) to open the file (using POIFSFileSystem) 
>>>>I'm not sure what encoding is being used and whether or not that 
>>>>supports these characters. I'm guessing that the platform's default 
>>>>encoding gets used.
>>>>
>>>>On Windows, the default encoding ensures that the file contents are 
>>>>preserved and everything works great. But on unix (solaris), the file 
>>>>contents (for these latin extended characters) are get garbled ?!?
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas/thoughts/suggestions ??
>>>>
>>>>thanks !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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