Posted by Al on 10/07/20 11:34

Al wrote:
> Anyone know to get IE6 to return POST data from a textarea when the text
> is pasted in?
>
> Works fine for Mozilla, etc.
>
> print_r($_POST) shows several <input...> and <text ...> values just fine.
>
> Thanks....


For those interested, here is the answer...

Text pasted into a textarea [e.g., from Word] can have characters not defined in IE's textarea ISO-8859-1 charset.

Appearently, IE6 has a bug such that it does not send the POST value for the textarea name when some of these are
present. [e.g., "…" char [hex 85]] I don't know how many.

You can get it to work by right-mouse selecting Encoding UTF-8 on the client browser or use in the html header:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

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