[Xerte] Re: Diacritics in LO titles

Pat L (pgogy) xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Mon Jul 7 17:19:00 BST 2014


There is a validation.js which chooses the characters allowed.
You could modify this to add accented chars and so on


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Fred Riley <Fred.Riley at bcu.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Ah, sorry, I meant the Project name in the Properties dialogue -
> diacritics, HTML entities and whatnot are fine in page elements. See:
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> http://xerte2.bcu.ac.uk/preview.php?template_id=55
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> Now that I think of it, this is even less of a big deal than I thought,
> because of course the project name is never visible to the Whole Wide World
> - it's just an internal thing. Indeed, it's barely a turn of a card... ;-)
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> Fred
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> www.fredriley.org.uk
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 07 July 2014 16:51
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: Diacritics in LO titles
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> à does work:
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fred Riley
> *Sent:* 07 July 2014 16:43
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Diacritics in LO titles
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> Hi all
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> I've just tried to rename a Xerte Toolkits LO to " Criomagan Gàidhlig"
> but got the message " This is not a valid name. Please use only letters
> and numbers", which also appeared when I removed the space, though " Criomagan
> Gaidhlig" was ok, so plainly XOT doesn't like the diacritic "à". I also
> tried using a HTML character entity ("Criomagan Gàidhlig"). Is this
> a known 'feature'? This is probably a FAQ but it's really not a big deal,
> and I'm not looking for a fix - I can do without the diacritic in the LO
> title, no bother. I'm just after knowing if diacritics are no-nos in
> titles.
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> Fred
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> www.fredriley.org.uk
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