Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 09/18/07 13:00

FFMG wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman;92371 Wrote:

>> That means that the help you need is with Office and HTML, not PHP.
>
> Well, I tend to disagree.
> Because I am trying to process data in PHP I think that asking fellow
> programmers on the PHP group for input is not as off-topic as you
> think.

How's that workin' out for ya, champ?
Have you noticed the roar of silence in response to your original request?

Seriously - you'll get a better response in an HTML or MS Office group.


> Is your suggestion to convert to an MS Office charset, (even if the
> user did not use MS Word), and then convert it back as needed?
> Would stripping the MS chars not be faster/better?

There are no such things as "MS characters" or an MS Office Character Set.

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