Last week I asked whether anyone had seen a problem with inserting text that 
was copied from a PDF and pasted into a WOText area.

My client was creating a new object (a job). She copied some meta data (text) 
from a PDF and pasted it into a WOText:

<wo:WOText value = "$jobDescription" cols = "40" rows = "8" />

she then clicked the save button that fired the saveChanges() on the EC. 

The new object threw an exception and after looking at the logs I discovered 
that the text that was pasted from the PDF had a trailing byte with a value of 
'0'. I googled around and came up with a solution to parse the text before 
trying to insert it into the database.

this is the setter for the WOText (now):

public void setJobDescription(String aJobDescription) {
        String theString = "";
        
        for(char c:aJobDescription.toCharArray()){
             if((c&(char)0xff00)==0 && (int)c != 0 ) {
                 theString=theString+c;
                 //NSLog.out.appendln("character  = " + (int)c);
             }
        } 
                
        _jobDescription = theString;
}

First, has anyone seen this before (text coming from a PDF with anomalies that 
will then require processing) and 
B, is there a better solution?  

:-)

Ted


      
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