somehow contents posted from.. say a word document or another website turns into weird symbols for me. I have traced it down to the storing part which fails. But I'm not sure how...

symbols of quotes turns out like:



my input script

PHP Code:


    function format_input($input, $html_entities=1) {
        //Escape Codes
        $input = mysql_real_escape_string($input);
        
        //Trim
        $input = trim($input);
        
        //If Html Entities
        if ($html_entities==1) $input = htmlentities($input);
        
        return $input;
    } 


mind you that if you type the quotes directly in the textarea it turns out ok.

I think somehow there's two quotes: ” vs "

any experiences with this?

It's the way Word displays certain characters. There's all sorts of markup in the background that you don't see.

I'm not sure if there's a quick and easy way to remove the characters. I could be wrong, but I think you'll have to write a function in your php to clean the text. I found this post which shows you how to clean the Word text using regular expressions. Hopefully it helps.

Weird, you can try this but I'm not sure if it'll help..

PHP Code:

if ($html_entities==1) $input = htmlentities($input, ENT_QUOTES);
if ($html_entities==1) $input = htmlentities($input, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
if ($html_entities==1) $input = htmlentities($input, ENT_NOQUOTES);
if ($html_entities==1) $input = htmlentities($input, ENT_NOQUOTES, 'UTF-8');