FFMG wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman;92237 Wrote:
>>> No, sorry I was actually talking about some non standard characters
>>> that MS Words inserts.
>>>
>>> Some bowser will, (maybe wrongly), not display any invalid
>> characters
>>> in the textarea itself giving the user the impression that
>> everything
>>> is fine.
>>>
>>> But when I then try to display the comment/entry I get a bunch of
>>> questions marks for the characters that were invalid.
>> Ah, so. You're having a character set problem.
>> Rather than have a big old off-topic thread about it here, you should
>> probably take the question to an Office or HTML group.
>> PHP won't you much.
>
> No I am not, read the question again, carefully this time.
> Textareas of most browsers will, (wrongly), accept MS Word pasted
> code.
>
> By the time it gets to my server I have to clean it up.
> My PHP code must handle it.
>
> Is that on topic enough for you?
>
> FFMG
>
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Yes, this has been asked before - but I don't remember what the answer was.

The easiest way would be to check for non-alphanumeric chars using a
regex. If you find any, tell the user to use plain text editor.

You could use a regex to strip non-alphanumeric characters, but this
might have some problems. For instance, what happens if you have a
control sequence which happens to contain a character - i.e. 0x010231?
The 0x42 would be taken as the character '1', even though it's part of a
control sequence. But you could clean it up fairly well this way.

Try googling this newsgroup for something like "MS WORD". It's been a
few months.

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