On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 16:22 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
> >>
> > content coming from MS Office clipboard pastes generally contain
> > characters that are encoded wrong, and do not display correctly in web
> > pages unless they have very relaxed doctypes. The function I generally
> > use is:
> >
> > function removeMSCrap($crap)
> > {
> > $find = Array(chr(128), chr(133), chr(8226), chr(145), chr(8217),
> > chr(146), chr(8220), chr(147), chr(8221), chr(148), chr(8226), chr(149),
> > chr(8211), chr(150), chr(8212), chr(151), chr(8282), chr(153), chr(169),
> > chr(174));
> > $replace = Array("€", "…", "″", "'", "'",
> > "'", "'", """, """, """, """, "•",
> > "•", "–", "–", "—", "—", "™", "™",
> > "©", "®");
> >
> > $roses = str_replace($find, $replace, $crap);
> > return $roses;
> > }
>
> Is that something you would suggest be used in any web app that has a
> textarea for input?
>
It is valid for that also. I've used it on standard <input type="text"/>
tags before as well.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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