[PHP] MS Word text pasted into forms

Occasionally, I have a problem dealing with some of the special characters from text authored in MS Word, and then pasted into a web form. It seems that somewhere something bad happens and what eventually gets put into mysql via php is not correct. In particular, I have trouble with

Re: [PHP] MS Word text pasted into forms

Jim, Have you tried a regular expression. Something like ereg_replace([^[:alnum:]|[:space:]|[:punct:]@], , $string); to clean the string? Gerard O On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:02:58 -0500, jimtronic wrote: Occasionally, I have a problem dealing with some of the special characters from text