Official CALPADS rule
What CALPADS is rejecting
Field must only contain Alphabetic letters, numbers, periods, hyphens apostrophes, forward slashes, spaces. Alphabetic characters with accents, tildes, or umlauts are allowed.
Valid characters are based on the UTF-8 character set standards.
Focus fields
Fields validated
18.08 - Local Student ID 18.13 - Incident Local ID
Recommended correction path
Suggested resolution
Understanding the Error: The field contains one or more characters that do not comply with the allowed character set. The field supports letters, numbers, select punctuation, spaces, and valid accented alphabetic characters.
Things to check for in the submission:
Verify that the fields in the Field Validated column do not contain any special characters. Check the allowed characters provided in the Error Description column for this error.
Suggested Resolution:
1) Remove or replace any unsupported characters.
2) Eliminate hidden or non-printable characters from the field value.
3) Correct any formatting issues that introduce invalid characters. Valid characters are based on the following UTF-8 character set standards:
https://cloford.com/resources/charcodes/utf-8_latin.htm
https://cloford.com/resources/charcodes/utf-8_latin1_supplement.htm
