Hi everybody,
the jakarta news page (http://jakarta.apache.org/site/news/news-2004-1stHalf.html)
mentions that POI 2.0 added codepage support for HPSF.
Now, I have downloaded POI 2.5 from http://www.apache.de/dist/jakarta/poi/release.
With this release codepage support does not work as I would expect it to work (German
document properties with Umlauts do not appear as Umlauts on a machine with a
non-german default encoding, e.g. ISO646-US)
In the downloaded sources for POI 2.5 I find codepage support in the TO-DO-List
- see description in src\java\org\apache\poi\hpsf\package.html,
- see src\java\org\apache\poi\hpsf\TypeReader.java
* FIXME: Reading an 8-bit string should pay attention
* to the codepage. Currently the byte making out the
* property's value are interpreted according to the
* platform's default character set.
Can anyone explain why it is no longer supported?
Is it worth to try a POI 2.0 version? If yes, where can I find it (the download pages
only contain POI 2.5)?
Will there be a future release that (again) supports codepages? If yes, what is the
expected release date?
Many thanks in advance
Michael Gesmann
