[PHP] dealing with MSWord curly quotes in text

[austin swinney]

im having a problem with text being submitted to my site through forms
into the database, where the text has been edited in MSWord and the
quotes that it uses get turned into question marks.  does anyone know a
way to convert these MSWord quotes to normal  marks?


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Re: [PHP] dealing with MSWord curly quotes in text

[Analysis and Solutions]

Hey Austin:

 text has been edited in MSWord and the
 quotes that it uses get turned into question marks.  does anyone know a
 way to convert these MSWord quotes to normal  marks?

Replace the nasties with preg...

   $Data = preg_replace('/[\x93\x94]/', '', $Data);


I figured out the Hex numbers of the offending characters by pasting such an
offensive character into the following piece of code where the x is...

   echo dechex(ord('x'));


You could use the same principles to replace all sorts of junk.

Enjoy,

--Dan

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