Re: Unwanted characters from pasted-in text.

2009-06-26 Thread stephen barncard
Thanks Björnke! that indeed is the magic incantation thanks again - Stephen Barncard San Francisco http://barncard.com 2009/6/25 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com I'm not sure, but those could be utf-8 chars, did you try to convert from utf8? function revText

Re: Unwanted characters from pasted-in text.

2009-06-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm not sure, but those could be utf-8 chars, did you try to convert from utf8? function revText theText return unidecode(uniencode(theText,utf8)) end revText On 24 Jun 2009, at 21:05, stephen barncard wrote: I have a wordpress blog that has survived many upgrades. Some text was entered

Unwanted characters from pasted-in text.

2009-06-24 Thread stephen barncard
I have a wordpress blog that has survived many upgrades. Some text was entered by users by pasting text into the earlier simple Wordpress entry fields in the early years. The text was readable and correct at the time. I'm guessing that Wordpress changed their MySQL character encoding. In the