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

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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