Re: 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 <tgol@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 <ceo@l-i-e.com> <ceo@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 > >