[FX.php List] special characters and fm

[Dale Bengston]

When that happened to me, I was not receiving errors. The form submit  
would work, and I was getting encoded text in my FileMaker fields.

I'm sorry that didn't solve your problem.

Dale

On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Alicia M. Cosenza wrote:

> 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-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
> [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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