There is a custom tag at the Adobe web site in the Developer's Exchange called CF_StripASCII that will strip out and replace "funky" high-ASCII M$Word characters from a block of text. It has proven to be immensely helpful to me in the past when dropping text from a textfield into a DB. I don't have a link, but just do a search for it on the Adobe site, and it should pop right up.
Ray Steve Bryant wrote: > I think you are exactly correct that the client copied and pasted from Word > (I begged them not to, but what can you do?). > > I have a request in to the new host now to have them change the character set. > > Thanks for your help, > > Steve > >> boxes indicate that the browser is unable to render that character, >> question marks (??) indicate garbaged data. i would guess these chars >> were out of the windows codepage (windows-1252) which is a superset of >> latin-1 (iso-8859-1) maybe copy/pasted from word. >> >> i suppose you could either clean-up those chars or change the db's >> encoding to windows-1252 or utf-8. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:231653 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
