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Dear Customer,
No, we cannot code to remove all "weird characters" from the dataset. Because what will inevitably happen is that we'll remove something that you need and then you'll be screeching at us that we've borked your business processes.
This error occurred because someone copypasta'd from an email with a linefeed. The sending system caught the linefeed. The receiving system doesn't have the appropriate character for it in the codepage. This will occasionally happen.
Unfortunately, we cannot code against the ingenuity of human stupidity. If there was a "remove ridiculous human error from calculation" function, we programmers would have started using it a long time ago.
So we leave the code as it is, and you will occasionally have a piece of grit in your oyster that does not become the proverbial pearl. You'll just have to learn to spit once in a blue moon.
with a great deal of irritation and absolutely no respect,
Sel.
No, we cannot code to remove all "weird characters" from the dataset. Because what will inevitably happen is that we'll remove something that you need and then you'll be screeching at us that we've borked your business processes.
This error occurred because someone copypasta'd from an email with a linefeed. The sending system caught the linefeed. The receiving system doesn't have the appropriate character for it in the codepage. This will occasionally happen.
Unfortunately, we cannot code against the ingenuity of human stupidity. If there was a "remove ridiculous human error from calculation" function, we programmers would have started using it a long time ago.
So we leave the code as it is, and you will occasionally have a piece of grit in your oyster that does not become the proverbial pearl. You'll just have to learn to spit once in a blue moon.
with a great deal of irritation and absolutely no respect,
Sel.
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