We use
a program called activedit on our backend admin section for our staff. We
noticed that cutting and pasting causes a lot of formatting problems, even from
a web page. The quickest way I found to correct the problem was to copy and
paste it into notepad and then copy and paste it from notepad. Notepad seems to
strip out all of the hidden characters. This was the easiest solution
for us since it doesn't crop up that often. If we did this day in and day out
then I would look into another solution.
Cheers
Gord
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Oudit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 15, 2002 10:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CFTALKTor] Special characters problem.Hi Guys,I keep running into a problem that has driven me mad for a while now. I think it has to do with the formatting of text within a text box.
I can't get special characters to display consistently. for example. If I cut and paste text out of MSWord it will change all special characters into ?'s when cold fusion pulls this in to a web page. So now whenever I use an admin module I always enter special characters as code e.g. the copyright symbol as ©
There are a few problems with this solution though. The major one is that when I edit a given section, all of the code for special characters get lost and they instead are displayed as the actual character. As a result if I hit submit all of those characters get converted to ?'s. To deal with that, I have to cut and paste all of my content code in to a code editor, then find and replace all of the special characters with code again. @#@&&@*!!!!
Obviously, this is not an good solution for clients who only only know how to cut and paste using MSWord.
Is there some sort of text formatting thing that I'm missing in SQL or in the form field that will fix this?Jeremy
