See issue #2239. Problem is dealt with at the source, by making sure that Reader Xls checks for use of 'GENERAL' rather than 'General'. There doesn't seem to be a reason to test in other places, or to test for other casing variants.
* Xls Reader Handle MACCENTRALEUROPE With or Without Hyphen
Fixes issue #549 and https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel/issues/989 (which is the source of the new test file). Some systems accept MACCENTRALEUROPE as the name for the appropriate encoding, and some accept MAC-CENTRALEUROPE. I fortunately have access to at least one of each type, and have run the tests on each.
CodePage.php has an array of translations from codepage number to string. I now allow the value to itself be an array; if so, the code will test each in turn to see if it can be used in iconv. I did not go fishing for other similar problems. If such show up, they can be dealt with in the same manner as this one. I don't really expect others, since this is a problem not merely for Xls, but, even then, it applies only to BIFF5 and earlier.
I also moved XlsTest from Reader to Reader/Xls.
* Cache Successful Result For Future Use
Per suggestion from @MarkBaker
* Fix for the BIFF-8 Xls colour mappings in the Reader
* Unit test for reading colours, writing hen rereading and ensuring that the RGB values have not changed
This problem is the same as #1238, which was resolved by #1239.
For that issue, the fix was to check in one place whether
$this->mapCellXfIndex[$xfIndex] was set before using it.
The sample spreadsheet supplied as a description for this
problem had exactly the same problem in 2 other places in the code.
In addition, there were 7 other places in the code where that
particular item was used unchecked. This fix corrects all 9 locations.
The spreadsheet supplied with the problem is used as the basis
for some new tests, which particularly test column dimensions
and styles, the problems involved in this case.