better unicode support in forms

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Lastly, the use of accented letters and special symbols in the French version 
of the questionnaire 
proved problematic. The xml survey files had to be saved using Unicode format 
with the appropriate 
file header intake because the ASCI special character definitions normally used 
by text editing 
programs were not supported on the phones. Standard Windows and Macintosh text 
editors both 
support saving simple text files in Unicode with a change of settings, but 
unfortunately even the 
Unicode surveys, once uploaded to ODK Aggregate, did not properly display 
symbols if the survey 
had been downloaded to the phone from the internet. If Unicode forms were 
uploaded directly from 
a PC they did not encounter this problem. In one instance a survey form was 
accidentally deleted 
while in the field, and the enumerator used ODK Collect to re-download it 
online. However, it was 
still missing all special characters. The issue was resolved by accessing a 
computer in the city to 
transfer the new survey via USB.  (ODK developers later noted that another 
solution to this problem 
is URL encoding the forms using the specific HTML numbers corresponding to the 
special characters 
desired.)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by yanokwa on 29 Apr 2010 at 10:26

• Merged into: #215

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See issue 215

Original comment by jbmurphy...@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 2:44

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Original comment by wbrune...@gmail.com on 20 May 2011 at 9:41

• Changed state: Duplicate
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