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Re: Check for *all* alphanumeric characters...

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From: Torsten Welches
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:59
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Valentino,

As I understand it there are three different "encoding forms" (UTF-8/16/32)
that can be converted without a problem - '&' will be Unicode 0x26 in all
encoding forms.
But you might want to delve into the details:
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html

Let us know what you find!

Torsten



Valentino Kyriakides schrieb in Nachricht <3acddcb6_2@dnews>...
>I thought about foreign people (from other countries or which may use for
>example IE, Netscape etc. with other default language settings - russian,
>greek etc.- or keyboard character mappings...). AFAIK, there are also
>different Unicode pages available and If people type something into text
>fields of our customers online shop and the characters from their mappings
>aren't recognized by our Java serverside input validation classes, they
>would never pass the server side validation and so they can't place any
>orders or even login into the shop system.
>
>I must be sure that the above scenario can't happen! - Otherwise we have to
>take other approaches.
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