OK, just as a test, I changed it to this.. return this.optional(element) || !(/[\d+!#&]$/i.test(value));
So, i do NOT want anything with numbers, pluses, exclamation marks, hashes or amperstands. Forgot to add double spaces..anyway. I guess there are probably more characters to be excluded. I was able to store the data element name sans problem. Might be a work around. That JavaScript library might have license issues (MIT). Maybe try server side validation and see where you get. Regards, Jason On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Another option would be perhaps to try exclude what we do NOT want > which I guess is punctuation, double spaces, etc.. > > Thinking somewhat subsersively as usual, > where is the spec on what a data element should be named anyway? > Perhaps users should be allowed to name their data elements anything > they please? > > Double spaces and trailing spaces are pretty annoying though, so that > one I think we should exclude. :) > > > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Jason Pickering > <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yeah, it won't work like this. Not so familar with Unicode and >> JavaScript, but it does not seem to be possible to do this. >> >> From http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html >> >> No Unicode support, except for matching single characters with \uFFFF >> >> Does not really seem to be a good way around this, except for server >> side validation, where the \w expression should be locale dependent. >> >> Looks like there have been some requests for this in JQuery, >> http://forum.jquery.com/topic/unicode-regex-support, but no clear >> information on whether it is available (does not look like it). >> >> This does look promising however.. >> >> http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/xregexp-unicode-plugin >> >> Perhaps server side validation is the best way to try to go in this case? >> >> Regards, >> Jason >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Hieu Duy Dang >> <hieu.hispviet...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Jason, >>> >>> I also checked that before did change \w to \p{L} or p{Letter} too. But >>> could not fix that because some thing is strange. Please help us. >>> >>> Thank u. >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:25 PM, jason.p.pickering <612...@bugs.launchpad.net >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> The Javascript validator is not setup to handle non-ASCII characters.. >>>> >>>> /^[\w-.,()\/%'\"\s]+$/i.test(value) [ line 81, additional-methods.js] >>>> >>>> The validator is expecting ASCII only characters (. So something >>>> like..\w) >>>> >>>> Số trường hợp bệnh tả >>>> >>>> needs to be converted first to something like.. >>>> >>>> S\u1ed1 tr\u01b0\u1eddng h\u1ee3p b\u1ec7nh t\u1ea3 >>>> >>>> which should be valid with a bit of tweaking to store and display the >>>> escape sequence correctly. >>>> >>>> Another possibility would be to use the \p{L} syntax, which should >>>> allow all Unicode letters. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Jason >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Kim Anh Vo <cata...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> > Public bug reported: >>>> > >>>> > based on the latest DHIS2 source-code on Aug 3rd 2010 >>>> > It's impossible to name a dael, dael-group, dataset, ind... with Unicode >>>> characters >>>> > (currently can use/borrow TRANSLATE function of dael, dael-group, >>>> dataset,... to name them in Unicode characters instead) >>>> > >>>> > ** Affects: dhis2 >>>> > Importance: Undecided >>>> > Status: New >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > Can't name dael, dael-group, dataset, ind in Vietnamese characters >>>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612866 >>>> > You received this bug notification because you are a member of DHIS 2 >>>> > India Developers, which is subscribed to DHIS. >>>> > >>>> > Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software: New >>>> > >>>> > Bug description: >>>> > based on the latest DHIS2 source-code on Aug 3rd 2010 >>>> > It's impossible to name a dael, dael-group, dataset, ind... with Unicode >>>> characters >>>> > (currently can use/borrow TRANSLATE function of dael, dael-group, >>>> dataset,... to name them in Unicode characters instead) >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jason P. Pickering >>>> email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com >>>> tel:+17069260025 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Can't name dael, dael-group, dataset, ind in Vietnamese characters >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612866 >>>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of DHIS 2 >>>> India Developers, which is subscribed to DHIS. >>>> >>>> Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software: New >>>> >>>> Bug description: >>>> based on the latest DHIS2 source-code on Aug 3rd 2010 >>>> It's impossible to name a dael, dael-group, dataset, ind... with Unicode >>>> characters >>>> (currently can use/borrow TRANSLATE function of dael, dael-group, >>>> dataset,... to name them in Unicode characters instead) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Hieu.HISPVietnam >>> Good Health ! >>> >>> -- >>> Can't name dael, dael-group, dataset, ind in Vietnamese characters >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612866 >>> You received this bug notification because you are a member of DHIS 2 >>> India Developers, which is subscribed to DHIS. >>> >>> Status in DHIS 2 - District Health Information Software: New >>> >>> Bug description: >>> based on the latest DHIS2 source-code on Aug 3rd 2010 >>> It's impossible to name a dael, dael-group, dataset, ind... with Unicode >>> characters >>> (currently can use/borrow TRANSLATE function of dael, dael-group, >>> dataset,... to name them in Unicode characters instead) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jason P. Pickering >> email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com >> tel:+17069260025 >> > > > > -- > Jason P. Pickering > email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com > tel:+17069260025 > -- Jason P. Pickering email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com tel:+17069260025 -- Can't name dael, dael-group, dataset, ind in Vietnamese characters https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/612866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of DHIS 2 developers, which is subscribed to DHIS. 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