Are you certain these curly quotes are actually coming in and not being
munged by the client sending them? If they are coming in, and they are
actually in Unicode, which unicode sequence are they represented by. If
you could save the raw data you are getting to a file and make that file
available we might have a chance at helping you here.
-Rasmus
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Monty wrote:
> 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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