CALPADS Extracts to support accent marks.
CALPADS Extracts sometimes do not recognize accent marks and instead will place a question mark where the letter was.
AdminDianaM
(Admin, Aeries Software)
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Researching to determine the complexity of the requested change.
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Chris Holloway
commented
Very interesting....
We have been cleaning up the accent marks, but on a whim found some other Aeries Ideas... and decided to try myself.
It seems that the SINF file is being saved out from Aeries using the UTF-8 format (as shown in notepad).
However, when using the é character... that is extracted as something interesting a whitespace character ?? " " (i've pasted between the double-quotes).If I edit the SINF file and replace with the é character, the file processes just fine in CALPADS.
I believe there is some sort of issue with the Aeries SINF extract.
It would be nice to allow students to see their name as expected, with the proper accent marks.
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Fearghas Lafferty
commented
This is still happening unnecessarily 3 years later. Extracts are encoded as ANSI, but CALPADS only reads UTF-8.
After converting files to UTF-8 using Notepad++ there are no IVR0009 errors.
