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

[Bill <brobins3d@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Gibbs wrote:
> Bill wrote:
> > But isn't that the purpose of documentation, to tell us of things like 
> > that?  The help text for Excel 2003 is pretty straightforward:
>
> True ... of course I didn't construct the spreadsheet ... however (at 
> least IMO) it's unreasonable and unnatural for a function to return 
> different output values for the same input based on somewhat arbitrary 
> environmental conditions.

But isn't that exactly what iSeries programmers run into when developing 
international versions of their software?


> A double byte character is a double byte 
> character, regardless of the default language.

With this point, I do agree.  The function should always return 2 bytes.

Bill