Re: help

Am 19. Januar 2021 um 17:38 Uhr schrieb "prnienhuis--- via Help list for GNU Octave":
> Dear Fernando,
> 
> Please don't email developers directly but ask in
> * the help-octave mailing list ([email protected]; forwarded)
>   or maybe better,
> * post in the Octave Discourse help group 
> (https://octave.discourse.group/c/help/6)
> 
> There are many more people there that may be able to help you.
> 
> P.
> 
> Fernando Duarte wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm Fernando Duarte, one maths teacher from Portugal.
> > I need, using xlswrite from octave, to write on excel (xlsx) sheet a 
> > string matrix with special characters like ç, õ, á,.....
> > for example:
> > a={'square'; 'diamond'; 'sin'}
> > b={'faço'; 'ação';' sátão'}
> > if I use xlswrite('myfile.xlsx', a) ->all runs well
> > but if  I try
> > xlswrite('myfile.xlsx',b) I have an error when I try open Excel sheet.
> > Can you help me solve this problem?
> > Thank you very much, in advance
> > 
> > sincerely
> > 
> > Fernando Baltazar M Duarte
> > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

Which version of Octave are you using? Which version of the io package?
Which platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS) are you on?
Which exact error message do you get?

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