Have you thought about escaping the characters. http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php
[EMAIL PROTECTED] sent the following on 5/8/2008 1:37 PM: >>From the RFC: > > "The characters ";", "/", "?", ":", "@", "=" and "&" are the characters > which may be reserved for special meaning within a scheme." > > and > > "Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and > reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded > within a URL." > > However, Ofbiz is converting the '+' sign to a space. Can someone tell me > where this conversion is happening so I can look for other possible > exceptions? This is important to me because I am importing hundreds of > thousands of entries and I need to handle these characters during import. > > Skip > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:14 AM > To: OfbizUser > Subject: Illegal Characters in an ofbiz URL > > > I am importing an existing database with partyIds like P&G#1 and BEN+JERRIES > > I assumed that the standard URL symbols would be illegal, so I converted '&' > to a '+' and most other punction to '_'. However, the '+' sign gets passed > to the bash script as a space. In other words, "P+G" gets passed as "P G" > which causes obvious problems. > > Is there a list somewhere of what characters are legal (or illegal) so I > don't have to make guesses about it? > > Thanks in advance if this is a stupid newbee question. > > Skip > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1420 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 2:12 PM > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1420 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 2:12 PM > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1420 - Release Date: 5/7/2008 > 2:12 PM > > > >
