Course Request Data Import - remove first/last name requirements or allow special characters

We have several students with special characters in their names. Anywhere a data import requires first/last name it errors out.

(e.g. "Zoë")


The most simple request here is to remove the first/last name requirements for Course Request Data Imports.

user_id or host_id is already required and the other information is unnecessary.


Thank you for considering!

Andrew

  • Andrew Teets
  • Mar 5 2024
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  • Lisa Tulchin commented
    09 Dec 21:07

    Hawaiian, along with English, is an official language of the US state of Hawaiʻi.


    https://www2.hawaii.edu/~rtoyama/pubs/diacritics.html

    Hawaiian Diacritical Marks and Other Special Characters

    You can insert special characters into a web page by typing an ampersand, a number or letter sequence, and a semicolon.

    These are the codes for rendering diacritical marks in Hawaiian words:

    • ʻ — ʻokina or glottal stop

    • Ā — Ā

    • ā — ā

    • Ē — Ē

    • ē — ē

    • Ī — Ī

    • ī — ī

    • Ō — Ō

    • ō — ō

    • Ū — Ū

    • ū — ū

    Other frequently used codes:

    • & — ampersand (because the ampersand is an "escape character", this is the safest way to display an actual ampersand)

    • – — n-width dash

    • — — m-width dash

    • ¢ — ¢

    •   — non-breaking space (used between words you don't want separated at line breaks)

    A Note on Accessibility: The ʻokina is known to throw off screen reading programs that read out text for blind people. To address this, University of Hawaiʻi Office of Communications recommends using the aria-label attribute within a span tag to supply the word (without diacrical marks) to the screen reader.

      <span aria-label="Hawaii">Hawai&#699;i</span>