Re: possible issue with quotes (Magicquotes feature)?

Hello Everyone, Thanks. Ash, i'll try your function and see how that works. The original content came from word documents, but they were pasted in to a text editor in this case notetab light. In the meta of the site the character set is utf-8 I was told it was better to use that than iso8859-1 if this is wrong i'd definitely like to know about it. Any other suggestions let me know. Thanks a lot. Dave. On 8/19/10, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 11:24 -0400, Marc Guay wrote: > >> I would chalk this up to that fancy, extra-curly, apostrophe that you >> get when copying and pasting text from Microsoft Word or similar. >> Marc >> > > > The characters Microsoft software introduces don't play nice with > non-Microsoft software, and cause a lot of problems like this for > web-based systems. If it helps, I wrote a small function to replace the > 'bad' characters with the correct ones: > > > http://ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding/php/Remove_Rubbish_Microsoft_Markup > > It can also remove the extra meta info stuff that seems to get thrown in > when you copy large amounts of text into a rich-text editor, as this > often breaks the display of content in non-MS browsers, although that is > a little experimental at the moment, as I've not really had the time to > test it exhaustively. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > >