Re: Handling non-translatable charcacters

I have the same issues with JWT. But when I get an invalid character the programs starts to loop trying to convert the character. It a third party application so I have little control over it.
I am think I will have to write a program to make sure the characters are within then UTF-8 Specs.


Thanks
John Slanina

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Yup - that's the one. Known as "En Dash".

I'll post here what I eventually do.


Jon P

On Feb 10, 2023, at 2:10 PM, Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is that the %E2%80%93 character? I got burned by that this week and
haven't found a good solution yet.

Thanks


date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 16:59:15 -0500

from: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WEB400] Handling non-translatable charcacters

Has anyone come up with an easy way of handling characters such as
the "elongated" hyphen character so beloved by Microsoft?

Every so often the JSON payload that I pull from a web service
includes characters like this (assumedly copy/pasted from a Word doc)
and it causes the DATA-INTO (for example) to fail. I can think of a
number of possible ways to handle this but hate reinventing the wheel
and I can't believe I'm the first to encounter it.

Changing the target fields to UTF-8 etc. to accommodate this is just
not an option.

Is anyone handling this?


Jon P.

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