Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote: i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most often find when copying text from MS Office: http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content is displayed in a web browser. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On 03/29/2010 01:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote: i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:http://www.php.net/unsub.php No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com http://www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत:महत्तम भवतु ! I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most often find when copying text from MS Office: http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content is displayed in a web browser. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Nice one. But not of use to me. I use geshi on my site, so cannot use WYSIWYG editors. Instead I've BBCode and WikiCreole (PEAR Wiki) input formats. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 01:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote: i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:http://www.php.net/unsub.php No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com http://www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत:महत्तम भवतु ! I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most often find when copying text from MS Office: http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content is displayed in a web browser. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Nice one. But not of use to me. I use geshi on my site, so cannot use WYSIWYG editors. Instead I've BBCode and WikiCreole (PEAR Wiki) input formats. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! It's not just for wysiwyg editors, that's just the second part of the function. The first does just what you asked for. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On 03/29/2010 02:21 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:25 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 01:22 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 07:24 +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote: i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.com mailto:s...@bigskypenguin.comwrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit:http://www.php.net/unsub.php No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com http://www.itech7.com http://www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत:महत्तम भवतु ! I wrote something that converts these characters, which you'll most often find when copying text from MS Office: http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk/coding_php_remove_ms_crap.php The second argument to the function just tells it to remove all the hidden meta tags that MS Office chucks into text that you copy into a rich text box in a web page, as this can really mess up how the content is displayed in a web browser. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk Nice one. But not of use to me. I use geshi on my site, so cannot use WYSIWYG editors. Instead I've BBCode and WikiCreole (PEAR Wiki) input formats. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com http://www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत:महत्तम भवतु ! It's not just for wysiwyg editors, that's just the second part of the function. The first does just what you asked for. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk I didn't ask anything in this topic. It was Skip Evans the thread starter. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Converting funky characters
Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On 03/29/2010 05:35 AM, Skip Evans wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip PCRE is your best friend for such problems. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evans s...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- solo(xzy...@gmail.com) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Converting funky characters
On 03/29/2010 07:22 AM, solo hsi wrote: i think you just need function urldecode() On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Skip Evanss...@bigskypenguin.com wrote: Hey all, What's the best way to filter/convert characters that don't translate properly from say news stories to HTML? For example, I have a form that people cut and paste the lead in paragraph from news stories they want to link to from their sites to the original. And of course things like long dashes, double quotes, single quotes, etc, always translate is wacky unprintables when they are rendered, and the user needs to edit them to replace them with standard characters. Is there way to filter this text through a function that will convert them to web friendly chars? Thanks, Skip -- Skip Evans PenguinSites.com, LLC 503 S Baldwin St, #1 Madison WI 53703 608.250.2720 http://penguinsites.com Those of you who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. -- Kurt Vonnegut -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php No, only urlencode() won't do the job. He's saying more about the long spaces and quotes, etc. -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु ! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
