I'm managing a site where articles from a magazine are being cut and pasted
into a text entry field. The people doing the actual cut and paste routine
are starting from a Quark file. When they cut the text out of Quark and into
the db, it is putting in all sorts of strange characters - probably high
ascii characters. When a dynamically created cfm page drawing its content
from the database is displayed, it puts all sorts of heiroglyphics in the
output. For example, apostrophes and emdashes show up as a hollow square -
that sort of thing.
I've tried to do a replace function on the article's body and by and large
it works. But I don't have any way of knowing what kind of odd characters
are going to be in the database so I can't anticipate every odd character.
Is there some way to handle this type problem?
Thanks for any suggestions/solutions.
Paul Sinclair
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