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KB0855519

Reference field with special characters will not show exact/correct values.


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Summary

If a table contains names with special characters such as - Microsoft�H, and if the table is referenced on another form, the search will not return the desired result.

Release

All supported releases.

Instructions

Remove the special characters.

Related Links

When you type manually, the search will work fine till Microsoft.

But if you wish to search for additional characters, the parsing will fail.

if you check the network console log, you would see the below error being displayed:

<parsererror
style="display: block; white-space: pre; border: 2px solid #c77; padding: 0 1em 0 1em; margin: 1em; background-color: #fdd; color: black"
>
<h3
>
This page contains the following errors:
</h3
>
<div

style="font-family:monospace;font-size:12px"
>
error on line 1 at column 258: xmlParseCharRef: invalid xmlChar value 0
</div
>
<h3
>
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
</h3
>
</parsererror>


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