[FX.php List] Encodings

Gjermund Gusland Thorsen ggt667 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 23 05:59:58 MDT 2006


Excel complicates, try to use a different environment.

ggt667

On 7/23/06, Thes Quid <thesquid at friedbaloney.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm using the output from FX.php to create excel files, but it seems
> FX outputs DCR (decimal character representation [like &#09880].
> (I'm using lots of different languages mixed together, like chinese/
> russian/english)
> Excel only likes utf-16. When I use the php Spreadsheet/Write/Excel
> PEAR class, it works fine, but that dies if the excel is too big.
> The perl module (upon which the php module is based) can handle such
> sizes, but it doesn't convert like the php module does.
> Question:
> Is there a way to tell FX to output utf-16 instead of DCR (also know
> as NCR numerical char rep)?
> Does anyone know a way to convert from DCR to utf-16? In php or perl,
> it doesn't matter.
>
> thanks,
>
> Dana L. Coe
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