IVR0009

Invalid Characters in Field


Submission: PSTS
Status: Active
Severity: Fatal
Input Validation: X
Data Discrepancy: N/A

ACTIVE DEFECTS:

None

ERROR DESCRIPTION:

Field must only contain Alphabetic letters, numbers, periods, hyphens apostrophes, forward slashes, spaces. Alphabetic characters with accents, tildes, or umlauts are allowed.

Valid characters are based on the UTF-8 character set standards.

FIELDS VALIDATED:

  • 17.09 - Local Special Education Student ID

SUGGESTED RESOLUTION:

Understanding the Error:

The field contains one or more characters that do not comply with the allowed character set. The field supports letters, numbers, select punctuation, spaces, and valid accented alphabetic characters.

Things to check for in the submission: Verify that the fields in the Field Validated column do not contain any special characters. Check the allowed characters provided in the Error Description column for this error.

Suggested Resolution:

1) Remove or replace any unsupported characters.

2) Eliminate hidden or non-printable characters from the field value.

3) Correct any formatting issues that introduce invalid characters. Valid characters are based on the following UTF-8 character set standards: https://cloford.com/resources/charcodes/utf-8_latin.htm https://cloford.com/resources/charcodes/utf-8_latin1_supplement.htm

NOTES:

N/A

UPDATE:

9/2022 - Updated to new UTF-8 set

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

None




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