[FX.php List] special characters and fm

[Dale Bengston]

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


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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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