Re: Problem with pasting text from word into php form

At 8:01 AM +0200 10/1/07, Crab Hunt wrote:

Hi, Is there a fix for removing the junk characters that appear when we copy and paste some text from Microsoft word into a php form ? For example the double quotes "" turn into something like *â??* thanks in advance.

Crab: That's something I'm working on as well. Part of the problem is that not only does M$ inject junk, but the user may actually be putting in something other than ASCII. So, some of the strange stuff, may not be junk. As such, I found this (use both): $text = preg_replace('/([\xc0-\xdf].)/se', "'&#' . ((ord(substr('$1', 0, 1)) - 192) * 64 + (ord(substr('$1', 1, 1)) - 128)) . ';'", $text); $text = preg_replace('/([\xe0-\xef]..)/se', "'&#' . ((ord(substr('$1', 0, 1)) - 224) * 4096 + (ord(substr('$1', 1, 1)) - 128) * 64 + (ord(substr('$1', 2, 1)) - 128)) . ';'", $text); This is supposed to replace all characters (UTF-8) with their HTML entities. This is untested by me, but shows promise. If you find a simpler solution, please keep me in the loop. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com