RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] WT Heck is this character? ?

[Shane Heasley]

As Dean mentioned - use a whitelist.  Only allow those characters in that
are in your whitelist and exclude all others.  Perhaps REReplace?
 
Cheers,
 
Shane Heasley

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So, I have to find a way to get it out of the incoming data feed. Have tried
doing s/r before with no luck. But will try again.



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[ACFUG Discuss] RE: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] WT Heck is this character? �

[Troy Jones]

I see this character sneak into code when I open something in Eclipse that was 
originally edited using some other editor or the file was originally created on 
a Mac.

[cid:image001.jpg@01CA7979.940C53C0]
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From: ad...@acfug.org [mailto:ad...@acfug.org] On Behalf Of Jason Vanhoy
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 7:52 AM
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Subject: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Re: [ACFUG 
Discuss] WT Heck is this character? �

It's this:
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/fffd/index.htm

Hex value is FFFD





On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Derrick Peavy 
mailto:derr...@derrickpeavy.com>> wrote:
Yes and yes.

But let me refine the question - WHAT IS THE CHARACTER??? I cannot find a way 
to trap it and I don't know the ASCII or other chr()


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On Dec 9, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Dean H. Saxe wrote:


"trap"?

Do you mean prevent it from getting in your app?  Use a whitelist.

-dhs

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Dean H. Saxe
"A true conservationist is a person who knows that the world is not given by 
his fathers, but borrowed from his children."  -- John James Audubon



On Dec 9, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Derrick Peavy wrote:


Can you see this character?

It's a diamond with a question mark

�

How in the hell does one trap that?

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