Posted by Michael Hulse on 10/07/74 11:34

> 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" >

Sometimes I use BBEDIT and turn-on "Show Invisibles"... that usually
catches any odd character. Then I save the file with unix line
endings... Seems to work really well.

I am glad you got it figured out.

Cheers,
Micky
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