Special Characters

The check validates that titles, column headers, and row headers do not contain special characters according to the company’s terms.

Goal

Verify recognizes and accepts a defined list of supported special characters, aligning with standard usage in clinical outputs.

The check identify unsupported or unusual special characters based on UTF-8 encoding standards (SAS compatible).

The following characters are explicitly allowed and will no trigger discrepancies:

{  }  \  @  $ α  ~  *  !  #  ^  |  =

Applicability

All tables, listings

Exclusion 

Figures
N/A, NA, N/E, NE, NR
Blank Cell 

Discrepancies

Special characters are found in title or headers.