[mapserver-users] RE: Validation beyond [A-z]

[Lime, Steve D (DNR)]

I see the problem, just not sure how to fix it. Steve W. provided some possibilities but that's probably not the only approach. It would be helpful if some interested person(s) got together and drafted an RFC. I think the devs would be in a position to help define implementation details if the problem is well defined along with a proposed solution.

Steve

From: mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Rahkonen Jukka
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:21 AM
To: mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [mapserver-users] Validation beyond [A-z]

Hi,

Validation is nowadays needed in quite a many places in a mapfile.  However, we who live outside the English speaking world tend to have more characters in the alphabet than A to Z.  This makes the mapfile validation idea only half effective because for making things to work at all with the native data we must accept almost everything that is non-numeric with wildcards. Are there others who think that this is a problem?

Stephen Woodbidge commented slightly this topic in another thead a month ago (Mar 29, 2011)
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2011-March/068307.html

-Jukka Rahkonen-
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