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Like most of the control characters, it had a purpose when ASCII was used for mechanical teletype machines, but it's pretty much useless now.
That's what I would have guessed.... except our client somehow got a lot of them in the memofields of a database we're working on.
Which brings me to my next question. I need an XSL file to be applied to data being exported to XML (in Access) that will get rid of stupid characters like that (Excel errors on ASCI 11). I'm sure I can RTFM and figure it out, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads how to do this....
eta: needs to work with any arbitrary XML document, as the XML depends on what fields the user selects and which query is used (out of a dozen).
According to the XML specification, the only control characters that are allowed in XML documents are carriage return (13), linefeed (10) and horizontal tab (9).
Oooh. My boss said that it's the client's fault their data is screwey, so they have to fix it. So, not my problem.
The downloading client can detect that it's garbage and will try another peer for the chunk, but the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows.
And so the arms race begins....
the end result is that it takes much much longer to download shows
Great. The big corps are DDOSing now. I'd like a sane world, please?
It's their stuff. I find it shortsighted, but sane enough.
I have to say, that does explain a LOT. Like why my Rome downloads have been taking so long.
t /part of the problem
I just got off the phone with Apple, and dude, SO NICE to talk to a tech support person who actually LISTENS to me when I tell them everything I've tried, instead of cutting me off and going down the official list of things to say. He let me explain what I'd tried, said "Okay, well you've done everything we can suggest over the phone." And then we talked about taking it to the Apple Store vs just mailing it to the repair people. Quite possibly the most pleasant tech support call I've ever had.
Somewhere, somehow I frelled my bluetooth modem connection between my Palm T5 and my Motorola V3. In order to fix this, I wanted to delete the phone/bluetooth device configs, and start from scratch.
Can't work out how! I've deleted it from the trusted device list, but that's not enough for me to be comfortable. I hate troubleshooting from mid-mess.
Any answers out there?
