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Hi Warren,</div>
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Here at Oregon State University, we set the person's firstname to "." (period) when the person has no firstname. I'm guessing firstname was a required field back in the 1990s when OSU implemented Banner.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 29, 2022 1:00 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Passing attribute with whitespace value</font>
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Hi Peter,</p>
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We are currently working with HR on evaluating ways of displaying users who have no first name. We currently are receiving FNU from HR, but many downstream systems has expressed issues with it. Leaving it blank would create issues for other systems. I guess
the overall problem is probably something I can ask in an InCommon mailing list.</p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of Peter Schober via users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 12:51 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>users@shibboleth.net <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Peter Schober <peter.schober@univie.ac.at><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: Passing attribute with whitespace value</span></p>
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* Mark Scarbrough <scarbrom@uci.edu> [2022-07-28 16:30]:<br>
> We have a use case where we are trying to pass a value of a single<br>
> space in an attribute.<br>
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Maybe I'll regret even askig but would you care to share what that use<br>
case is or rather how a single space can convey the required semantics<br>
(not not any other non-whitespace character)?<br>
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