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85 <li>Attended meeting regarding SJ/Irvine Vob move. Shivdutt is investigating doing vob moves instead of replication. Briefly discussed Disaster Recover options.</li>
87 <li>Got Chris' scripts that check for invalid characters in string data for the ASCII character set to work on our test PQA database. Found invalid characters.</li>
89 <h3>Invalid ASCII Characters in Clearquest databases</h3>
91 <p>With Clearquest 2003.06.15 there is more support for internationalization. This means that Clearquest now implements a <i>Code Page</i> which essentially defines the valid character set for data. If it encounters invalid characters the user must correct them.</p>
93 <p>Question is do we have invalid characters in the current database. Chris Rump had found such invalid characters when performing his Clearquest migration from Irvine -> San Diego. I've quickly adapted his scripts to check a few fields in the TO database and found some. So far all I've found are non ASCII characters for the apostrophe. We think this happens when a user copies and pastes text from Microsoft Word into Clearquest (Thanks Microsoft! :-()</p>
95 <p>In any event I still need to update the script to check all string oriented fields. If only a few isolated cases can be identified (e.g. Apostrophes, perhaps soft carriage returns, etc.) then perhaps this could be made into a function that will check for invalid ASCII characters and fix them</p>
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