I't the Word "smart quotes". A bit of experimenting suggests ASCII 145 and 146 for single quotes and 147 and 148 for double quotes. I have the same problem with my forms, and for me they display okay in IE, but not in Mozilla. I must put some editing in place for this :-)
Olwen Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Roger Spears [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 6:07 AM To: PHP - General Subject: [PHP] is ' or " different in MS-Word then ascII? Hello, This question may border on OT... Some of my visitors create their text in Ms-Word and then cut and paste it into the text area and then submit the form. When I retrieve it from the database, I do a stripslahses, htmlentities and nl2br in that order to preserve the format of the submitted test. When I view this text, single or double quotes show up as little white square blocks. I've tested this out with MS-Word on a windows machine and a mac machine. Same thing happens with either OS. This only happens when they cut and paste from MS-Word into the text area. If they type text into the text area directly, everything is fine... I know I can search through their submitted text and swap out the unrecognized character and insert the proper one. I just don't know what to look for as being the unrecognized character. ____________________________________________________________________ CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify Safe Air Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of Safe Air. _____________________________________________________________________ For more information on the Safe Air Group, visit us online at http://www.safeair.co.nz/ _____________________________________________________________________ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
