On 10/ago/2011, at 12:53, Nick Burch wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Phill wrote:
>> In my XSSFWorkbook I'm trying to define a data format for British pounds as
>> follows: moneyCellStyle.setDataFormat(df.getFormat("£#,##0.00"));
>>
>> In my Excel document the numbers are formatted correctly and the pound sign
>> is present but it is prefixed by an 'Å' character. e.g. Å£1,500.00
>
> My hunch is that the encoding you're writing the pound sign into your .java
> file, and the encoding that javac is expecting are different.
>
> If you can correctly get the pound sign into java as a correct string, all
> should be fine
>
> Nick
Thanks for the pointer - that's exactly what it was.
I set the javac encoding to to UTF-8 which is the same as my source files and
all ok now.
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