Posted by Chris Shiflett on 10/31/05 18:12

Dan McCullough wrote:
> I having been looking for some snippet to help me with changing
> MS Word double, quotes, single quotes and other characters to
> acceptable HTML safe characters.

This seems to work:

$search = array('/[\x07\x95]/',
'/\x85/',
'/[\x91\x92]/',
'/[\x93\x94]/');

$replace = array('-',
'...',
"'",
'"');

$string = preg_replace($search, $replace, $string);

Hope that helps.

Chris

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