Bug 18404 - [RFE]Add encording mode ENCODING_AUTOMATIC to HSSFCell and set as default mode
Summary: [RFE]Add encording mode ENCODING_AUTOMATIC to HSSFCell and set as default mode
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: POI
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HSSF (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0-dev
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: POI Developers List
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Reported: 2003-03-27 10:18 UTC by Toshiaki Kamoshida
Modified: 2006-07-26 03:20 UTC (History)
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Description Toshiaki Kamoshida 2003-03-27 10:18:34 UTC 
Hello,

When someone,using DBCS as natural language,uses HSSF library,now he must call 
HSSFCell#setEncording(HSSFCell#ENCODING_UTF_16) at each cell objects.

But it is not convenience.In japan,sometime I saw a new-user couldn't find this 
method,and made cell contains broken caracters, and evaluate POI as "useless". 
XP

When serialize a cell's value,it is easy to check the value has double bytes 
character or not,I feel.
So I suggest, add encording mode ENCODING_AUTOMATIC to HSSFCell, and if seleted 
mode is this,chek characters automatically and decide to seialize as 
ENCODING_COMPRESSED_UNICODE or ENCODING_UTF_16 in POI library.
And I hope,you make default encoding mode to ENCODING_AUTOMATIC.
Comment 1 Jason Height 2006-07-26 10:20:38 UTC 
Latest code in SVN will use string chars to determine encoding type. Which does
what you describe.

Of course i am not a unicode expert, so if this latest code doesnt work then
please raise a bug with an appropriate testcase.

Jason