Re: iconv is messing up a spreadsheet generated by the Spreadsheet Excel Writer

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On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 15:51 +0200, Thodoris wrote:
> Hi gang,
>     I am generating a spreadsheet using the contents of a mysql table. I 
> guess that there is something in the data that causes iconv used in the 
> module's script to generate this error:
> 
> *Notice*: iconv() [function.iconv 
> <file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tgol/Local%20Settings/Temp/function.iconv>]: 
> Detected an incomplete multibyte character in input string in 
> */usr/local/share/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php* on line 
> *1547*
> 
> This causes the production of weird characters in a cell in the 
> spreadsheet and after that cell everything is printed out of order.
> 
> The data in the mysql table are filtered for non-printable character 
> before the data import.
> 
> I have tried to filter the data before writing them into the sheet but 
> this behavior persists.
> 
> Any ideas in what might be wrong?
> 
Well a multibyte character is something like a character from utf-8 or
unicode, where more than one byte is used to represent the character.
Does the Excel writer you use support utf or unicode?


Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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