[FX.php List] special characters and fm

[Alicia M. Cosenza]

Hi,

Unfortunately it did not :(.

I would have loved it if it would have.  The error code I am getting
is 958.  I think you are right though that it is something to do with
encoding since the text that is returned in place of the characters is
nonsense.

Any other ideas?

Alicia Cosenza

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Dale
Bengston
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 4:18 PM
To: FX.php Discussion List
Subject: Re: [FX.php List] special characters and fm

Hi Alicia,

To eliminate problems with content copied from Word or Outlook and  
pasted into a textarea, make sure you have this at the top of your
page:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

Hope this helps,
Dale


--
Dale Bengston, Partner
Streamline Studio, LLC
(a division of The Whole Brain Group)
Member, FileMaker Business Alliance



On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:07 PM, Alicia M. Cosenza wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have recently noticed that some of my web forms occasionally would
> mysteriously not submit to FM for unexplained reasons.  After a lot
of
> investigating I discovered that certain characters will cause errors
> upon submission including the character represented in html as
&ldquo;
> and &rdquo; which are just different looking quotation marks that
are
> pasted if the user first wrote their submission in say word or
> outlook.  This also happens with single quotes.
>
> Is there a known list of these error causing characters that are
> commonly used?  Has anyone found a cute solution around this problem
> besides just using str_replace() or something similar for each type
of
> bad character?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Alicia Cosenza
>
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