Bug#411952: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl: New version (0.28) fixes bug with non-Latin-1 characters

[Carlo Segre]

Ah, a new maintainer on CPAN.  I will upgrade to this new version.

Thanks for the head's up!

Carlo

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Toby Allsopp wrote:

> Package: libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
> Version: 0.2603-5
> Severity: normal
>
> Version 0.28 of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel doesn't corrupt non-Latin-1
> characters like 0.2603 does.  An example character is 0x96 in
> windows-1252, which is U+2013 (en dash).  In version 0.2603 this comes
> out as a code of 19.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>  APT prefers testing
>  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
> Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>
> Versions of packages libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl depends on:
> ii  libole-storage-lite-perl      0.14-3     simple class for OLE document inte
> ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
>
> libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl recommends no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
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> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:25:36 +1300
> Message-ID: <87649ukh5b.fsf at nav-akl-pcn-343.newton.navman.com>
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