Special Characters on supplier site prevents payment batch processing

Hi

I noticed an Address line on a supplier site contains special characters i.e. # . The supplier details were copied and pasted from Excel. As a result we were unable to process a payment batch for this supplier.

Question, is there anyway to prevent this situation from occuring? Is there a patch in Oracle that can be applied to accept special characters without the need to update and correct the Address line on the supplier site?

Are there specific characters that Oracle will allow or is it a case that all special characters will cause process issues in Oracle?

Thanks in advance.