Posted by Jochem Maas on 08/05/05 22:13

Lance Earl wrote:
> I recently upgraded my server. It is running Ubuntu Linux with PHP and
> MySQL. My site allows people to post content to their own web oages
> through a web interface. Many of my customers compose their content on a
> word processer and then cust and paste it to the web interface for
> insertion to the database and later retrevial and display on a web page.
>
> The problem I am having is that content which includes quotes is is not
> being seen correctly. Rather than inserting a slashed quote (/"), it

I don't think it's the root of your problem but I think you mean an espaced
quote - i.e. one that been 'backslashed' - \"

> inserts a bunch of strange formatted gunk. A sample of the problem anc be
> seen at www.dallypost.com/ranch/page5688.php

Marco seems to be right about the encoding - but I can;t admit to even knowing
half as much as him about that topic (make me dizzy everytime!) so I won't attempt
to thicken the plot sp to speak.

g'luck

>
> Thanks
>
>

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