Posted by Jay Paulson on 08/22/05 16:29

I have a problem that I'm sure some of you have run into before,
therefore I hope you all know of an easy solution. Some of my users
are cutting and pasting text from Word into text fields that are being
saved into a database then from that database being displayed on a web
page. The problem occurs when some special characters are being used.
Double quotes, single quotes, and other characters like accents etc
have the special html code like &quote; etc replacing the special
characters. What methods are being used to combat this issue? Is
there a solution out there to run text through some sort of filter
before submitting it to the database to look for these special
characters and then replacing them?

Thanks for any help,
Jay

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