[FX.php List] special characters and fm

[Bob Patin]

Alicia,

This is what is known (to me anyway) as the Bengstonian solution! :)

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On Sep 12, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Dale Bengston wrote:

> 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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