Hi Daniel, Here's a UDF off of cflib.org that specifically cleans weird chars from WORD: http://cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=319
It removes these chars: chr(145), chr(146), chr(147), chr(148) If you expand this to clean a lot more maybe you should post it - I've seen others ask about such functionality. Cheers, Baz -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:01 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: cleaning text that doesn't display well I have a form where people enter information into a database and it's displayed on a web page. We all do, I'm sure. Often times people paste the text in from whatever source they receive it from, often MS Word docs, but really anything. Because of this, I often receive characters that don't display well and are either a box or a box with an X in it. I'd like to clean this text on the way in. I'd like some advice on how to go about this. Should not allow any ascii values above 127 or try and gather a list of bad characters and change them into known good characters (curly quotes into straight quotes for example)? I'm sure this isn't a new question, so how do you go about it? I didn't see anything in the archives but I am not a good searcher. Is there maybe a CFC that already does this (and is free!)? thanks for any assistance. _____________________________ Daniel Kessler College of Health and Human Performance University of Maryland Suite 2387 Valley Drive College Park, MD 20742-2611 Phone: 301-405-2545 http://hhp.umd.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:228286 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
