This is much more than a character encoding problem. Extracting text from a Microsoft Word file is a very complex process. Microsoft provides 'IFilter' support for this purpose. Various vendors sell more portable solutions. I don't know of a full open-source solution.
You can tell the user to save as .txt and then upload that, and THEN you merely have a character encoding problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]