I think by default phpmyadmin wants to use the iso-8859-1 character set. This matches the typical mysql Latin-1 character set which is also 8859-1. So I think where the issue may be is that Word is not using 8859-1. Figuring this out is not easy, but the basic idea is that you are probably having the default Western European (Windows) character set, which is Windows character set Windows-1252. Although this is supposed to be *mostly* Latin-1 compatible, it's actually different in some ways. So when you are cutting your 1252 code page snippets and pasting em to the 8859-1 page, you're losing some stuff. You can *try* this but I have no way of replicating the experiment on my end. In Word: Tools|Options|General Find the Web Options button Use encoding tab, and change your character set to Western European (ISO). If that doesn't wreck the original document, then perhaps you'll be able to cut and paste as you expect. Best of luck with it. If nothing else, this discussion might hopefully point you in a direction that will lead to to solving your garbled chars mystery. >-----Original Message----- >From: Lamp-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:Lamp-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of >Graham Anderson >Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:54 PM >To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [Lamp-user] Pasting text from MS Word into PHPmyAdmin > > >I am copy/pasting text from a microsoft word doc into >phpmyadmin are there any special tricks to avoid strange >characters...most of my >text is in Spanish >The only thing that seems to work is converting the text to >ASCII which >ditches all the Spanish formatting :( >is there some process to make this a painless process ? > >g > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > >_______________________________________________ >Lamp-user mailing list >Lamp-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://maillist.lampsig.org/mailman/listinfo/lamp-user_maillist .lampsig.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
