Using non-ASCII Characters in the Live Meeting service API
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The Live Meeting service API is localized for eight languages including English. There are many strings that only accept ASCII characters (like password and userID). However, there are other strings that accept non-ASCII characters.
The Live Meeting Manager Web interface allows you to enter non-ASCII characters where they are supported. The Live Meeting service API requires a different encoding for non-ASCII characters. The encoding expected by the APIs has the form &#xHHHH; where 'H' is a hexadecimal digit. This encoding can be used for single-byte or multi-byte characters. The hexadecimal value for the character can vary depending on the character set used to display that character.
The following options are allowed to contain non-ASCII characters:
billing
company
firstName
infoA
infoP
lastName
lobbyMessage
opaque1
opaque2
seatLabelBlue
seatLabelGreen
seatLabelPurple
seatLabelRed
seatLabelYellow
seatPrompt
title
userName
The following table shows some example names with example encodings.
Name |
XML encoding |
---|---|
Göktepe Mete |
Göktepe Mete |
József Kránitz |
József Kránitz |
José Saraiva |
José Saraiva |
Joao Casqueiró |
Joao Casqueiró |
Stefan Rißling |
Stefan Rißling |
Kálmán Béres |
Kálmán Béres |
Ralf Riethmüller |
Ralf Riethmüller |
Anders B. Skjønaa |
Anders B. Skjønaa |
Example
<PlaceWareConfCenter authUser="apiuser" authPassword="Pa$$w0rd">
<ModifyUserRequest userID="jkranitz">
<OptionList>
<StringOption name="firstName" value="József" />
<StringOption name="lastName" value="Kránitz" />
</OptionList>
</ModifyUserRequest>
</PlaceWareConfCenter>
For more information about XML character encoding, see the following documentation:
Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Third Edition)
Section 2.2 Characters at http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/\#charsets.