[AG-TECH] NCSA AG 2 Venues Server trouble

[Michael Miller]

Craig,

No worries, It wasn't you.  And besides, my message was just to inform 
everyone what happened so that we can avoid the problem in the future.
:-)

Michael

At 09:46 AM 4/12/2005, you wrote:
>Michael,
>
>I hope I wasn't the one that caused this when I was working with the
>scheduler for the first time yesterday.  If so, I'm extremely sorry.
>
>Craig
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Miller [mailto:mimiller at ncsa.uiuc.edu]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 10:36 AM
>To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>Subject: [AG-TECH] NCSA AG 2 Venues Server trouble
>
>Hello Everyone,
>
>Yesterday and today we experienced problems with the NCSA AG 2 Venues
>Server availability.  The problem was caused by a file with Extended ASCII
>characters in it's name.  I believe the character is used in Word to
>signify "smartquotes".  The SOAP implementation that the AGtk is built on
>does not handle these characters and the Enter Venue function fails.
>
>Please be careful what characters are used in filenames and shared
>application instances.  Valid characters are ASCII 0-127 and you can find a
>table here:
>http://www.lookuptables.com/
>
>You'll probably want to avoid anything lower than "SPACE" (Dec=32 Hex=20)
>as I don't believe they are on the typical keyboard. And ASCII 127 is "DEL".
>
>Many character sets from other languages use ASCII codes beyond
>127.  Please be careful to find out from your participants if they are
>using a character set other than the standard ASCII set.
>
>Hopefully, what I've mentioned here makes sense, if others have suggestions
>to clarify, please do.
>
>We apologize for any inconvenience.
>
>Thanx,
>
>Michael Miller
>System Engineer
>Video Technology Services
>Persistent Infrastructure Directorate
>National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>University of Illinois - UC
>217-649-0747
>
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