Hello, I'm having some trouble with strange characters that come from MS Word. User's are copying text from MS Word, pasting it into a textarea on the site. I then save that text into MySQL (table charset is set to utf-8). Then later I retrieve that data to create a RTF document then an email it to somebody. The problem is that a lot of characters from word aren't displaying correctly.
Example an " will return \xe2\x80\x93 from the database. What type of encoding is that? I've tried running this through all sorts of encoding functions in python but haven't had any success, unicode, smart_unicode, decode & encode functions. My next guess would be that perhaps these strange characters need to be removed before they are saved to the database. Any ideas? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
