jasonrogena / jasonrogena/php-excel-reader

Problem with russian characters

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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)

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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.

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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

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