--- Forwarded Message from "Janel Brennan-Tillmann" <[log in to unmask]> --- >From: "Janel Brennan-Tillmann" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: foreign characters on BlackBoard (!) >Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:16:34 -0400 >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Thread-Index: AcWtiV4N98a4r2/jQv2K0YYP0XFuBkoQ/77g Hello, I was wondering if any of you BlackBoard users can help me! Our campus has just switched from WebCT to Blackboard 6.3 and I am noticing that when you try to type accented characters into the boxes (announcements or adding an assignment for example), the accents do not appear. I tried it both on a mac and a PC with US international keyboard with no such luck. Is this something in the system settings that our system admins have to change? I found this message below from a post made last year and I am wondering if that is the solution that we should pursue. Thanks for any advise on this! -Janel Janel Brennan-Tillmann, Coordinator Language Instructional Technology School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures 3215 Jimenez Hall, College Park, MD 20742 301-405-6927 http://www.languages.umd.edu [log in to unmask] digiLANG Technology Blog for SLLC Faculty http://digilang.blog-city.com -----Original Message----- From: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of LLTI-Editor Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:22 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: #7972.2 foreign characters on BlackBoard (!) --- Forwarded Message from Jeanne Farrell <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:53:39 -0400 >From: Jeanne Farrell <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #7972 foreign characters on BlackBoard This is a message from Caroline Hecht at Cornell University to a Blackboard listserv and it looks like it might be your problem. We had awful problems with accent marks when we first migrated from Bb 5 to Bb 6.1 in June. The problem turned out to be that there are two different character sets to specify in Oracle, and we had specified AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8 for both. In fact, we needed to specify AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 for NLS_LANG. Once we made the change, we were able to enter chars with diacritic marks properly. I can give you more info on how the change was made, if you need it. There are places in Oracle, and also in bbuser's .profile on the app server. Jeanne Farrell >--- 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 (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************