Using Symbols and International Characters in Brandle

The Brandle System supports a broad range of international alphabets and symbols as defined by the UTF-8 standard (Unicode). UTF-8 is the dominant encoding for the World Wide Web.

Unicode supports the original 128 character (US-ASCII) character set as well as almost all Latin-script alphabets, and also Greek, Cyrillic, Coptic, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Thaana and N'Ko alphabets, as well as Combining Diacritical Marks. It also supports the Basic Multilingual Plane, which contains virtually all characters in common use, including most Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.

Character restrictions

Brandle does have some restrictions on the use of certain symbols, which may impact the way items are displayed in HTML, interpreted by Javascript or a spreadsheet application (e.g. for import/export).

Tag Category names may only contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the symbols: dash (-), underbar (_), at-sign (@), and period (.).

Tag names may only contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the symbols: dash (-), underbar (_), at-sign (@), period (.), colon (:), ampersand (&), forward slash (/), and open "(" and close ")" parentheses.

Characters requiring special attention

Data is imported into the Brandle Presence Manager via spreadsheets in the CSV format, either encoded as ASCII or UTF-8 (the common standard). Care needs to be taken when importing data that has commas (,), semi-colons (;), TABs, and hash (#) symbols as they may be interpreted differently than intended and cause the import to fail.

Character for multi-Tag Import from a Spreadsheet

When creating a spreadsheet for importing into Brandle, and when you wish to have multiple tags from the same Tag Category or multiple contacts with the same Contact Role on a specific item (e.g. POP, Ad Account, etc), you can either put one tag/contact per cell (and thus repeating the same column heading multiple times) or have all tags/contacts in the same Tag Category/Contact Role in the same cell but separated by a semi-colon (;). For Example: "Corporate; Europe"