--- Forwarded Message from "Mustapha Masrour" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:03:18 -0400 >From: "Mustapha Masrour" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7972 foreign characters on BlackBoard Greetings Gus, I shared with our bb manager, Paul Carson, the issue you have faced. He said that when we upgraded our bb system from 6.1 to 6.2, we noticed that all diacritical marks stored in the database were lost. They applied an Oracle character fix to the oracle database. This restored our ability to see the lost diacritical marks. Paul says that Hofstra's bb system is hosted by the blackboard ASP. Hope you will find this helpful. Peace, mustapha mustapha masrour, Ph.D. Teaching Administrator Director, Language Learning Centre Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 213 Memorial Hall Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 (phone) 516-463-5653 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. >>> [log in to unmask] 8/29/2005 10:20 AM >>> --- Forwarded Message from "Gus Leonard" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:00:57 -0700 >Subject: foreign characters on BlackBoard >To: [log in to unmask] >Cc: "Troy Challenger" <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Gus Leonard" <[log in to unmask]> Hello LLTIers, We just migrated our campus BlackBoard system from 5.x to 6.1 and most of the diacriticals in our Spanish courses were lost in the course rollovers. Has anyone had experience with this? Suggestions for resolving it? Some characteristics are summed up here: >Foreign characters appear incorrectly in emails >Symptoms: >Foreign characters that are entered in the subject and message areas of emails sent from within the Content System appear as question marks (?). > >Discussion Board attachments that contain foreign characters in the file name cannot be viewed. >Symptoms: >An error message is displayed when the user attempts to open the document. This issue appears under all conditions. We'd appreciate any suggestions for us as classes start Monday. Thanks, Gus _______________________________________ Gus Leonard Language Laboratory Coordinator School for World Languages & Cultures $F0 Building 48-119 $F0 California State University, Monterey Bay $F0 100 Campus Center $F0 Seaside, CA 93955 $F0 Email: [log in to unmask] $F0 (831) 582-4446 $F0 http://LanguageLab.csumb.edu | http://tinyurl.com/8ou73. President, SouthWest Association for Language Learning Technology $F0 http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hirc/SWALLT/ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************