[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #49222] octave-io 2.4.3: xls2oct with "OCT" interface lost the ability to read german umlauts or °

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #49222 (project octave):

Andreas,

It turns out that is the OS that makes the difference.

On Linux, after commenting out the call to tidyxml.m at L.198 in xls2oct (in
io-2.4.3), I get the results you're after. Locale settings etc make little
difference.

On Windows I get the results I showed in comment #2

I'm at loss at what to do now.
Octave formally doesn't support double-byte characters; yet the GUI seems to
have no problems there, nor does konsole (I'm running Mageia-5 with KDE).
There are a few ways to proceed:

1. Enclose the calls to tidyxml in a "if (ispc)" block

2. Make calling tidyxml configurable using the "options" arguments in xls2oct
& oct2xls (& ods2oct & oct2ods) with a suitable default (which one?)

3. Same as 2, but with different defaults on Linux (don't call tidyxml) and
Windows (do call tidyxml).  Which IMO gets very messy.

Suggestions?


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