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List:       poi-user
Subject:    Re: Problems with HSSF and character sets
From:       "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver () apache ! org>
Date:       2006-12-09 9:59:52
Message-ID: 457A8918.20007 () apache ! org
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http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/faq.html#faq-N100A4  FAQ #11.

-andy

Alain Mowat wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having problems using HSSF with czech files, and probably other languages that \
> have special characters in them.  If I open a file, and then simply write this same \
> file to the hard disk with no modification whatsoever, the saving process actually \
> modifies a certain number of characters and replaces them by a '?'.  This happens \
> with the following simple code :  POIFSFileSystem fs = new POIFSFileSystem(new \
> FileInputStream("Path to file")); 
> wb = new HSSFWorkbook(fs);
> 
> FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("Some location");
> 
> wb.write(fileOut);
> 
> 
> Strangely, not all characters are altered. For example, the word  "nebezpecná" \
> becomes "nebezpe?ná" in one cell, but no modification is done to the same word in \
> the following cell. 
> It appears to come from the way the file is saved to the disk. Maybe POI saves the \
> file as an old Excel 95 file, the same problem seems to happen when this is done \
> directly in Excel. 
> Does anybody know how I can stop these alteration from happening?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alain 
> 



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