Interview at new client
Dec/060
Last Friday, my colleague and me had an interview at a new client. The funny part of this interview was that – before I signed with the company I work for now, I had an interview at that client for a permanent position as Siebel developer. Because consultancy looked more interesting than a permanent job, I choose my current company.
During the interview, they didn’t ask me any questions since the remembered me from my previous interview. They told they were happy to have me in their team one way or another.
This week I have one more interview to go and then I can start on this project as of January 2nd. I’m looking forward to it.
Siebel converts special characters
Dec/060
Today I was working on the dataload from a Siebel 6 environment to a Siebel 7.8 environment. When I try to import the attachments into the new environment, I found that a lot of attachments where partially imported.
A look at the logfile learned me that those attachments could not be found. After a closer look, it seemed that all the attachment had special characters in the filename. With special characters I mean characters like é, è, à % and so on.
After comparing some of the attachments I noticed that Siebel converts these characters in other characters. So far I made this list of converts. The list is not yet complete but maybe it can be helpful:
ô –> (
é –> T
è –> F
ï –> n
û –> v
à –> a
ê –> O
î –> á
² –> ¦
ö –> ÷
ç –> t
% –> blank
€ –> Ç
’ –> Æ
« –> ½
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