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Problem with strange characters appearing in tracker module text fields

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From: "Wilson,Randy" <rwilson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:13:23 +0000
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Hi all,

Some of the data entry clerks have been entering strange data in some of the text fields of the tracker module in our Death Audit forms.  I think it is due to the character sets on their keyboards.  As a result we have fields like:

bebe%20murorunkwere%20donatha%20gakuru

This causes the analytics module to fail and it also does not allow us to export the data correctly.

I've searched and replaced most of the special characters, but I can't figure out how to search for %20, since the percent sign is used as a wildcard.  Any suggestions on how to find and replace these characters with spaces?

Randy Wilson

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Re: Problem with strange characters appearing in tracker module text fields
From: Jason Pickering, 2014-01-31