[PHP] Pasting text from MS Word into PHPmyAdmin

I am copy/pasting text from a microsoft word doc into phpmyadmin are there any special tricks to avoid strange characters...most of my text is in Spanish The only thing that seems to work is converting the text to ASCII which ditches all the Spanish formatting :( is there some process to make

[PHP] RE: [Lamp-user] [PHP] Pasting text from MS Word into PHPmyAdmin

Anderson Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Lamp-user] [PHP] Pasting text from MS Word into PHPmyAdmin I am copy/pasting text from a microsoft word doc into phpmyadmin are there any special tricks to avoid strange characters...most of my text