Re: Converting funky characters
| From: | solo hsi | Date: | Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:52:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Converting funky characters | ||
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i think you just need function urldecode()....
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evans <skip@bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't
> translate properly from say news stories to HTML?
>
> For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead
> in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their
> sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes,
> double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky
> unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to
> edit them to replace them with standard characters.
>
> Is there way to filter this text through a function that will
> convert them to web friendly chars?
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
>
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