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
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Andrew Teets
- Mar 5 2024
Related ideas
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.