Thanks, The problem is, we will have hundreds of users using Microsoft Word and we cannot switch it off for all of them. Ideally I need some type of string replace function, so no matter what they enter it gets trapped an replaced. It's not the normal hyphens that cause a problem but the long hyphens. Regards David -----Original Message----- From: Dan Shirah [mailto:mrsquash2@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 16 November 2006 15:13 To: php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Special Character To turn off the auto formatting of hyphens: In Microsoft Word 2003: Open a new document. Go to Tools>Auto Correct Options> Select the "Auto Format As You Type" tab Deselect the "Hyphens (--) with Dash (-)" option. Even though it says it will replace a double hyphen (--) with a Dash (This is an em dash) it also does the same thing for a single hyphen depending on the sentance structure. Hope this helps! Dan On 11/16/06, Niel Archer <niel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi David > > What you describe sounds like Word is auto replacing hyphens with > either > en- or em-dashes. This is a configurable option in Word that often > defaults to on. Try using double quotes, If they get switched to 66's > and 99's style quotes, then that is likely the problem. I no longer > use MS Office for these and other reasons, so cannot tell you how to > switch off this formatting. But it can be switched off, somewhere within it. > > The only other option I can think of would be to change your Db > character set to one that can accept these extended characters. That > might also mean changing some of Window's/Word's behaviour (to be > using > UTF-8 for example). > > Niel > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
