[PHP] SOLVED => is ' or " different in MS-Word then ascII?

[Roger Spears]

Here is a real code solution instead of my original posted client 
solution....

My original problem involved text submitted via the good old fashion 
<textarea> in a web form.  If a visitor created their text in MS-Word 
and then cut and paste their text over to the web form and submitted, 
any place within their text that they used ' or " would be turned into 
little white boxes.

After spending a day researching this problem, I realized I could just 
inform the visitors to turn off Smart Quotes in their word processor 
application.

Overcome with frustration and exhaustion, I posted this to the list as 
SOLVED and provided my client solution.  As many of you pointed out 
(thank you), it's not a valid solution for a large user base.  And as 
some pointed out (thank you), it's not a solution by any means...

Tom Rogers explained the problem and provided a code solution:
The problem is that Microsoft uses a non standard Latin-1 code for their 
"smart" quotes and a lot of programs don't know what to do with them as 
a few are actually control codes in other languages.

<?php
function clean_ms_word($text){
$crap = array( 
chr(0x82),chr(0x83),chr(0x84),chr(0x85),chr(0x86),chr(0x87),chr(0x88),chr(0x89), 

chr(0x8a),chr(0x8b),chr(0x8c),chr(0x91),chr(0x92),chr(0x93),chr(0x94),chr(0x95), 

chr(0x96),chr(0x97),chr(0x98),chr(0x99),chr(0x9a),chr(0x9b),chr(0x9c),chr(0x9f)
        );
$clean = array( 
'&lsquor;','&fnof;','&ldquor;','&ldots;','&dagger;','&Dagger;','','&permil;', 

'&Scaron;','&lsaquo;','&OElig;','&lsquo;','&rsquo;','&ldquo;','&rdquo;','&bull;', 

'&ndash;','&mdash;','&tilde;','&trade;','&scaron;','&rsaquo;','&oelig;','&Yuml;'
        );
$content = str_replace($crap,$clean,$text);
return $content;
}
$string = chr(0x93).'Test'.chr(0x94);

echo clean_ms_word($string).'<br>';

Thanks Tom!  Works like a charm!!  Also, thanks to everyone who offered 
tips, suggestions, and solutions...

R

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