From 69b7c794638a6425944a1222a42ae21edf25e3db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <acoliver@apache.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:50:41 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] backed out this code it causes
 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10393

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/poi/trunk@352813 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java | 55 ++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
index 93a9f39cc..b1b5bc841 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/poi/util/StringUtil.java
@@ -62,14 +62,8 @@ import java.text.FieldPosition;
 
 /**
  *  Title: String Utility Description: Collection of string handling utilities
- * 
- * Now it is quite confusing: the method pairs, in which
- * one of them write data and other read written data are:
- * putUncompressedUnicodeHigh and getFromUnicode
- * putUncompressedUnicode     and getFromUnicodeHigh
  *
  *@author     Andrew C. Oliver
- *@author     Sergei Kozello (sergeikozello at mail.ru)
  *@created    May 10, 2002
  *@version    1.0
  */
@@ -85,8 +79,6 @@ public class StringUtil {
      *  given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
      *  return a string
      *
-     * { 0x16, 0x00 } -> 0x16
-     * 
      *@param  string                              the byte array to be converted
      *@param  offset                              the initial offset into the
      *      byte array. it is assumed that string[ offset ] and string[ offset +
@@ -111,37 +103,22 @@ public class StringUtil {
         if ((len < 0) || (((string.length - offset) / 2) < len)) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal length");
         }
-        
-        char[] chars = new char[ len ];
-        for ( int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++ ) {
-            chars[i] = (char)( string[ offset + ( 2*i ) ] + 
-                             ( string[ offset + ( 2*i+1 ) ] << 8 ) );
+        byte[] bstring = new byte[len];
+        int index = offset;
+        // start with high bits.
+
+        for (int k = 0; k < len; k++) {
+            bstring[k] = string[index];
+            index += 2;
         }
-
-        return new String( chars );
+        return new String(bstring);
     }
     
     
-    /**
-     *  given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
-     *  return a string
-     * 
-     * { 0x16, 0x00 } -> 0x16
-     *
-     *@param  string  the byte array to be converted
-     *@return         the converted string
-     */
-
-    public static String getFromUnicodeHigh( final byte[] string ) {
-        return getFromUnicodeHigh( string, 0, string.length / 2 );
-    }
-
 
     /**
      *  given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
      *  return a string
-     * 
-     * { 0x00, 0x16 } -> 0x16
      *
      *@param  string                              the byte array to be converted
      *@param  offset                              the initial offset into the
@@ -167,23 +144,21 @@ public class StringUtil {
         if ((len < 0) || (((string.length - offset) / 2) < len)) {
             throw new IllegalArgumentException("Illegal length");
         }
+        byte[] bstring = new byte[len];
+        int index = offset + 1;
+        // start with low bits.
 
-        
-        char[] chars = new char[ len ];
-        for ( int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++ ) {
-            chars[i] = (char)( ( string[ offset + ( 2*i ) ] << 8 ) +
-            					string[ offset + ( 2*i+1 ) ] );
+        for (int k = 0; k < len; k++) {
+            bstring[k] = string[index];
+            index += 2;
         }
-        
-        return new String( chars );
+        return new String(bstring);
     }
 
 
     /**
      *  given a byte array of 16-bit unicode characters, compress to 8-bit and
      *  return a string
-     * 
-     * { 0x00, 0x16 } -> 0x16
      *
      *@param  string  the byte array to be converted
      *@return         the converted string