Re: Converting funky characters

On 03/29/2010 01:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:

On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote:

i think you just need function urldecode().... On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evans<skip@bigskypenguin.com <mailto: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 -- ==================================== Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com ------------------------------------ Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:http://www.php.net/unsub.php

No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site& Server Administrator www.itech7.com <http://www.itech7.com> मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत:महत्तम भवतु !

I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most often find when copying text from MS Office: http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content is displayed in a web browser. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

Nice one. But not of use to me. I use geshi on my site, so cannot use WYSIWYG editors. Instead I've BBCode and WikiCreole (PEAR Wiki) input formats. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !