[FX.php List] FX.php and textarea problem

[Dale Bengston]

Hey Joel,

Happy to share the wealth! Yes, it's much easier to set the charset  
than try to re-train users. My thanks to whoever it was who posted  
that bit of brilliance last year. Maybe it was on FSA Tech Talk....

-Dale

On Feb 20, 2006, at 11:14 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:

> Dale, this is GREAT!  (And a heck of a lot easier than explaining  
> to users how to correctly Save As Text ;-)
>
> It certainly does take care of the Word copy-and-paste problem.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> -Joel
>
>
> Joel Shapiro - FileMaker Pro Database Design
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>
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 6:33 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Somewhere along the line, I got this bit of intelligence about  
>> character set encoding in html documents. Forgive me, I don't  
>> remember which generous FileMaker developer spread this bit of  
>> wisdom; I can't take credit for it but I sure have reaped the  
>> benefits!
>>
>> FM7SA
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>>
>> FM5-6U US
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>> charset=iso-8859-1">
>>
>> FM5-6U EU
>> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>> charset=iso-8859-15">
>>
>> Choosing the correct charset will take care of the Word copy-and- 
>> paste problem.
>>
>> -Dale
>>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Ankur Goyal wrote:
>>
>>> It might be helpful to look at the PHP string functions;  
>>> stripslashes() & addslashes()
>>>
>>> Ankur
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Derrick Fogle wrote:
>>>
>>>> if quotes and apostrophes aren't escaped correctly, it can  
>>>> truncate your input into a database
>>>
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