Re: MS Word text pasted into forms
| From: | Gerard Onorato | Date: | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 22:30:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MS Word text pasted into forms | ||
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Jim,
Have you tried a regular expression. Something like
ereg_replace("[^[:alnum:]|[:space:]|[:punct:]@]", "", $string);
to clean the string?
Gerard O
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:02:58 -0500, jimtronic wrote:
>
>Occasionally, I have a problem dealing with some of the special
>characters from text authored in MS Word, and then pasted into a web
>form. It seems that somewhere something bad happens and what
>eventually gets put into mysql via php is not correct.
>
>In particular, I have trouble with apostrophes and accented vowels.
>
>Is the solution to disallow users (it's an admin, so this is
>realistic) from pasting from MS Word?
>
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