From 6880121c7e08179f11296107ca1f86c6b5f82e7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:49:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12410

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git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@352843 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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 src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
index 059e36acd..a8c868b4c 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class StringUtil {
         
         char[] chars = new char[ len ];
         for ( int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++ ) {
-            chars[i] = (char)( string[ offset + ( 2*i ) ] + 
+            chars[i] = (char)( string[ offset + ( 2*i ) ] & 0xFF | 
                              ( string[ offset + ( 2*i+1 ) ] << 8 ) );
         }