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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
>> 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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