[FX.php List] Extra content at the end of the document

[Tim 'Webko' Booth]

On 29/10/2008, at 6:49 AM, Steve Winter wrote:

> Valid conclusion, suspect incorrectly encoded characters in the  
> field with the largest amount of data probably generated by someone  
> doing a copy and paste from word...

Yep, I'd support that - smart quotes and the like have caused me a lot  
of problems over time. You can set the database to not use them, but  
pasting in stuff from Word seems to get around that.

Try running the output through a replace function to strip them... Off  
the top of my head, something like

function convert_smart_quotes($string)
{
     $search = array(chr(145),
                     chr(146),
                     chr(147),
                     chr(148);

     $replace = array("'",
                      "'",
                      '"',
                      '"');

     return str_replace($search, $replace, $string);
}

Cheers

Webko