hmmm yeah -- problem is the majority of (civil service) clients are too, how shall I say it, "inexperienced" and bloody stubborn to learn how to copy into Notepad... they just want you to "scan" or "hotlink" their documents magically onto the web :-)
anyway I've found a tag that looks promising... will report back if any good, it looks like this annoys the hell out of everyone d ----- Original Message ----- From: "Taz -=TT=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] non ascii MSword malarchy > Its a complete arse.. I don't think there is a good way to stop the crap > getting through, so I always tell clients to paste it into notepad, then > copy it from there and paste it into activedit > > I think a bunch of Regexs to get rid of all the M$ crap would be a hell of a > lot of code. > > Taz > > > > No -- various clients have CMS where they are copying contents of a Word > doc > > into a form field (activeedit for instance) and then save it to their db. > > I'm looking for a way to strip illegal characters from this when it is > > submitted and convert them to ascii characters... > > > > hope that's clearer! > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
