FOR THE RECORD:
I (spud who really is at nothingness.org) did NOT post this original
message to the list, despite the apparent sender address (and the
authentic signature at the bottom). Even the message-id header was
forged to appear to have emanated from my server (whose logs I checked,
to be
After considerable investigation into the form input of non-Latin 1
characters to be processed by PHP on a Linux box, I've been able to
distill the issue down considerably, though a solution (and one oddity)
remains confusing.
I found a very helpful web page entitled "On the use of some MS Wind
Errr...I'm not sure how this is applicable to my situation. I'm
concerned, above all, with converting
curly double quotes
curly single quotes
em and en dashes
inverted exclamation points
inverted question marks
ellipses
non-breaking spaces
registered trademark symbols
bullets
left and right guill
Brent --
Thanks for the pointer, but it doesn't really address the problem. I am
specifying the character set for the page (ISO-8859-1), and I'm
inserting an ACCEPT-CHARSET parameter into the FORM element, but it
specifies acceptable charsets as UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, and Windows 1252.
The problem
I'm working on a PHP-based CMS that allows users to post lengthy
article texts by submitting through a form. The short version of my
quandary is this: How can I create a conversion routine that reliably
substitutes HTML-acceptable output for high-ASCII characters pasted
into the form (from
I developed a rather large and extensive PHP application for maintaining
a news publishing site. All static text was, when I created it, written
in English. Form field labels, long explanatory texts, navigational
links, everything. The popularity of the application, however, has
drifted outsid
I've built an application framework in PHP that makes heavy use of the
"smart URL" technique for passing variables, which works great with
Apache 1.3.22. I have reports, however, that it breaks under Apache 2.x,
and would like to verify whether or not anyone can confirm this.
I'm using URLs to
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