Anyone! I'm out of online resources and answers. I guess this isn't possible
to do...
> I've been reading for the last three days about character encodings and
> such, but, have still been unable to figure out what I think should be a
> simple solution.
>
> All I want to do is take curly or "smart" quotes that have been pasted or
> entered into a form field and convert those into straight quotes (") before
> I store the text in my database.
>
> It appears the data passed from the form to my PHP script is encoded as
> Unicode. My version of MySQL does not support Unicode character encoding,
> so, I need to convert that into Latin1 (or ISO-8859-1).
>
> When I use iconv() to translate the data that contains curly quotes, the
> string gets chopped off at the very first curly quote and the rest of the
> string is lost. This is the command I am using:
>
> $var = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $var);
>
> When I use utf8_decode(), I at least get the whole string back, but, all the
> curly quotes and apostrophes are turned into ? question marks.
>
> So, I presume there must be some way to convert those curly quotes into
> straight ASCII quotes while the text is still in Unicode format, before I
> run this through either iconv() or utf8_decode(). But, I've searched all
> over for two days and can't figure out how to accomplish this.
>
> I'd really appreciate someone's help with this! It's driving me nuts!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Monty
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