Hi Martin,
Locale looks like a hack. Apparently it's possible to set the Locale
globally, which I'm a bit surprised by. I would have expected that it would
be set on an application level. But it's quite possible that I don't
understand all of the complexities. I did find this code, which looks
promising:
/**
* @(#) SetDefaultLocale.java
* A class representing use of method setDefault() of Locale class
in java.util Package.
* @Version 24-May-2008
* @author Rose India Team
*/
*import *java.util.*;
*class *SetDefaultLocale {
*public static **void *main( String args[] ){
/* Create object of Locale class using contructor
Locale(String language, String country) */
Locale objLocale = *new *Locale("CH","CHINA");
// getDefault() method call. This is static method.
Locale locale = Locale.getDefault();
System.out.println("current default locale is : " + locale);
// setDefault() method call. This is static method.
Locale.setDefault(objLocale);
System.out.println("##.....Set default locale successfully !");
locale = Locale.getDefault();
System.out.println("Now default locale is : " + locale);
}
}
Thank you again for your help. Best regards,
Ian
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Martin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Hi Ian,
>
> > I have written some Java code very much like the HPSF example on the
> HPSF
> > HOW-TO <http://poi.apache.org/hpsf/how-to.html> page which reads
> Microsoft
> > Office document property (or metadata) information. This code works fine
> > for documents that have been saved with English versions of Microsoft
> > Office. However, when I try to use it with a Microsoft document that is
> > saved with a Chinese version, the code fails. I get an exception and the
> > only message is "GBK". I assume that this is referring to the character
> > set.
>
> You do have all the Java locale data installed? The Windows JRE doesn't
> do this by default and this has tripped me up in the past.
>
> HTH
>
> Martin
>
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