Re: replace Microsoft characters with standard

you can replace anything... str_replace(chr(XX), '<br>', $string); Just change XX to the ascii value of the character you want to change. To figure out what that value is, use your favorite hex editor. Mine is BVI <http://bvi.linuxave.net/>. -jeremy brand Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler. --Dennis Ritchie On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Derek Sivers wrote: > Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:44:39 -0800 > From: Derek Sivers <list@hitmedia.com> > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] replace Microsoft characters with standard > > I want to replace Microsoft's curly-quotes with regular html &quot; > straight-quotes for any incoming text submitted in a form. (And some other > special-character replacements, too.) > > I know str_replace will do it. > > BUT - - - How do I find out the character hex values to replace? > > What IS that little curly-quote character? > > The "..." elipses character that MS Word creates? (which I want to convert > back into 3 periods.) > > OR: > > Does PHP4 already have some brilliant function for just this kind of thing? > > > > Any advice appreciated. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >