Importing decision table from Excel: Non Ascii chars should not be corrupted ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-2936 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBRULES-2936 Project: Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet Fix For: 5.4.0.Beta1 see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5298748/guvnor-rules-encoding Excel (like windows) probably has crappy encoding standardization (as in none at all), so I suspect that we 'll need to ask the excel document what encoding (or even what locale) it is and read the data in that encoding.