[jira] [Commented] (VELOCITY-975) Unicode characters cause issues

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Alex O'Ree commented on VELOCITY-975:
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striping it out before sending to velocity is a work around, but it's far from ideal. It's hard to know what characters it will joke on. hmm, maybe i can rig up a test to simple test all of the characters until a pattern emerges. I'm working with content extract from an office document so there's absolutely no guarantee that the character set can be entirely cleaned up.

Do you know what character set velocity is restricted to?

> Unicode characters cause issues
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VELOCITY-975
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-975
>             Project: Velocity
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Engine
>    Affects Versions: 2.3
>            Reporter: Alex O'Ree
>            Priority: Major
>
> Ran across some cases of processing files using velocity with some unicode characters in it that caused some unexpected results. Is there anything that I can do to prevent or mitigate this short of stripping out a set of bad characters before i had the script off to velocity?
>  
> {noformat}
> org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Lexical error,   Encountered: "\u00a0" (160), after : "" at *unset*[line 1, column 19]
>         at org.apache.velocity.runtime.RuntimeInstance.evaluate(RuntimeInstance.java:1437)
>         at org.apache.velocity.app.VelocityEngine.evaluate(VelocityEngine.java:239)
> {noformat}



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