Data is cut-pasted from Word (I think), then inputted via form text area to
database. When outputting data, some characters such as apostrophies and dashes
display as little squares. I need to fix this somehow. First thought is to
replace the characters on output, but I don't even know what
cflib has a function called demoronize. some rich text editors have a
special paste from Word button that attempt to clean up the smart quotes
and other crappy MS characters.
however, it's been my experience that neither these (nor any other automated
method that I've heard of) is bulletproof.
Thanks Charlie,
I just tried DeMoronize, and it did not even touch it. Worth a try though. I
wish there was something effective. I get people cutting-pasting from Word,
Publisher, all sorts of programs always with problems. I always suggest pasting
in MS Notepad first to clean it up, but the
Personally I use this function which also replace HTML codes by true iso
characters
(HTML codes cause search requests to fail):
function toIso(text)
{
var html =
##201;,aacute;,agrave;,acirc;,aelig;,aring;,atilde;,auml;,
eacute;,egrave;,euml;,ecirc;,iacute;,igrave;,iuml;,icirc;,
I've often thought about pulling apart the JavaScript that's in use by tinyMCE
or fckEditor and building a server-side filter to get content into the DB
clean, but I haven't found the time. May be worth a look. They're open
source, so dig through the editor functions to find the cleanWord()
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