I've had this issue - and have it - usually when people cut and paste from Word. (Using the "right apostrophe") However I am using MySQL. What I do is a find and replace through phpmyadmin... which won't help you with Access.
In addition to fixing the DB - You probably need to write a filter in the data entry submission as well. <cfset TextAreaAmended1 = ReplaceNoCase(#FORM.TextArea#, "â¡","'", "All")> I would guess to update the DB you need to loop through your entries and do a replace: - Nick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/message.cfm/messageid:3267 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Newbie/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.15
