Re: GAH!!!!!! Excel is so STUPID! -- PCTECH

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David Gibbs wrote:

Folks:

LENB is (supposed to be) aware of double byte & single byte character sets ... unfortunately, it's only aware of double byte characters when Japanese is the default language on your PC.

So, if Japanese IS the default language on your PC, and a character is double byte ... it will return 2 as the length of the character. However, if Japanese is *NOT* the default language on your PC ... it will return 1 as the length of a character.

There's no warning about this potential discrepancy when you load the spread sheet ... the only way I was able to find this out was to dig through the documentation.

But isn't that the purpose of documentation, to tell us of things like that? The help text for Excel 2003 is pretty straightforward:

LENB counts each double-byte character as 2 when you have enabled the editing of a language that supports DBCS and then set it as the default language. Otherwise, LENB counts each character as 1.
The languages that support DBCS include Japanese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), and Korean.

Bill

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