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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Randy,
Seems strange, because %20 is the HTML encoding for a space.
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp

Seems like something else to me.

Regards,
Jason



On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Wilson,Randy <rwilson@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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:
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>
> bebe%20murorunkwere%20donatha%20gakuru
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>
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> This causes the analytics module to fail and it also does not allow us to
> export the data correctly.
>
>
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> 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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