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The Apache Commons Codec package contains simple encoder and decoders for various formats such as Base64 and Hexadecimal. In addition to these widely used encoders and decoders, the codec package also maintains a collection of phonetic encoding utilities.

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package org.apache.poi.sl.usermodel;

import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
import java.util.Date;

/**
 * Common interface for comments
 *
 * @since POI 4.0.0
 */
public interface Comment {
    /**
     * Get the Author of this comment
     */
    String getAuthor();

    /**
     * Set the Author of this comment.
     * if the author wasn't registered before, create a new entry
     */
    void setAuthor(String author);

    /**
     * Get the Author's Initials of this comment
     */
    String getAuthorInitials();

    /**
     * Set the Author's Initials of this comment.
     * if the author wasn't registered before via {@link #setAuthor(String)}
     * this has no effect
     */
    void setAuthorInitials(String initials);

    /**
     * Get the text of this comment
     */
    String getText();

    /**
     * Set the text of this comment
     */
    void setText(String text);

    /**
     * Gets the date the comment was made.
     * @return the comment date.
     */
    Date getDate();

    /**
     * Sets the date the comment was made.
     * @param date the comment date.
     */
    void setDate(Date date);

    /**
     * Gets the offset of the comment on the page.
     * @return the offset.
     */
    Point2D getOffset();

    /**
     * Sets the offset of the comment on the page.
     * @param offset the offset.
     */
    void setOffset(Point2D offset);
}