jasonrogena / jasonrogena/php-excel-reader
Problem with russian characters
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
- 1
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
```
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.read the .xls with any russian characters in cells.
2.
3.
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Russian chars are displayed as strange characters �����
Please provide any additional information below.
version 2.21
Please help!
```
Original issue reported on code.google.com by `buharov....@gmail.com` on 18 Jul 2014 at 11:16
Attachments:
- [sample with rus chars.xls](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/php-excel-reader/issue-193/comment-0/sample with rus chars.xls)
- [22_777.jpg](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/php-excel-reader/issue-193/comment-0/22_777.jpg)
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the attached sample with rus chars.xls and inspect how the reader decodes cell text. Confirm the result against the attached image; done means Russian characters are displayed correctly when reading the sample spreadsheet.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100