[FX.php List] Bad apostrophe character confounds FMP

[Jschwartz]

Bob,

I can solve today's problem by just replacing the bad apostrophe in  
the FMP record.

  My question is more toward regular best practices to help avoid the  
problem of non standard characters  in the future.

J


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Jonathan Schwartz
Jonathan at Exit445.com
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On Dec 9, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Bob Patin <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> I couldn't find it in my site files quickly, but I think I used
>
> HTMLspecialchars
>
> to avoid this problem, which i also had.
>
> A function that would do this would be the thing to use; something  
> that would also strip slashes...
>
> stripslashes(htmlspecialchars($thestring))
>
> But I can't remember whether I used htmlspecialchars or  
> htmlentities...
>
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> On Dec 9, 2007, at 9:11 PM, Alex Gates wrote:
>
>> Hi Jonathan -
>>
>> Couple questions -
>>
>> - How does the apostrophe look in FM?
>>
>> - What encoding are you using on your page?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>> I spent a bunch of time diagnosing a 958 error that was eventually  
>>> narrowed down to a character in the name "O'Doherty".  The  
>>> application loads an existing FMP record into a session, allows  
>>> editing and then creates a new record based on the eited data.   
>>> The apostrophe appeared as "%92" in the FMP query, and caused the  
>>> 958 error during new record creation..  I have no idea how 958  
>>> relates, but it was definitely the culprit.
>>> The question is, what techniques do you us to condition data,  a  
>>> regexp? and on every field?
>>> Thx.
>>> Jonathan
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