IVR0009
Invalid Characters in Field
Submission: SINF
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:
- 2.11 - Student Legal First Name
- 2.12 - Student Legal Middle Name
- 2.13 - Student Legal Last Name
- 2.15 - Student Alias First Name
- 2.16 - Student Alias Middle Name
- 2.17 - Student Alias Last Name
- 2.20 - Student Birth City
- 2.31 - Address Line 1
- 2.32 - Address Line 2
- 2.33 - Address City Name
- 2.34 - Address State Province Code
- 2.35 - Address Zip Code
- 2.39 - Guardian 1 First Name
- 2.40 - Guardian 1 Last Name
- 2.41 - Guardian 2 First Name
- 2.42 - Guardian 2 Last Name
- 2.43 - Student Preferred First Name
- 2.44 - Student Preferred Last Name
- 2.45 Mailing Address Line 1
- 2.46 Mailing Address Line 2
- 2.47 Mailing Address City Name
- 2.48 Mailing Address State Province Code
- 2.49 Mailing Address Zip Code
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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