Re: Filter out MS Word 'quotes' for RSS

On Wed, April 26, 2006 4:45 am, Kevin Davies wrote: > I've got a forum/blog system which is displaying correctly in the > browser. > However, I've also got an RSS feed that is created from the data > entered. > > It seems that some of the users are copying and pasting from MS Word > or > other packages, and this means that strange quote marks (among others) > are > appearing, and breaking the RSS feed. > > Obviously I need to convert these on entry, or on output into RSS. > Does > anyone know of an easy way to do this, or is it a case of identifying > each > unusual character individually? > > I've been searching on Google for some advice on this, but not found > anything so far... There is a huge thread on php.net in str_replace and/or preg_replace about this, only for HTML Entities. You're on your own to figure out what is the "best" RSS entitiy to use for those oddball characters. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm