Notes field only supports a limited character set
March 15th, 2009
| Tags: character set, notes
With the release of SiteCatalyst 14.4, the Notes field was enhanced to provide report-specific information including timestamp and user name, and the ability to edit or delete the note.
This enhanced note field is a really nice new feature, I could see myself use this for short explanations of new custom reports or new calculated metrics I’ve created.
Unfortunately the note field only supports a somewhat limited character set.
Just after adding a note everything looks nice:

But after reloading the page, things fall apart, the + character has been removed, and international characters replaced with garbage:

Workarounds:
- Don’t use “+” or international characters.
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