Pasted Text from Word...

Morning All!

Have a small problem, but is something that I can't get past. When a user pastes text from Microsoft Word that may contain words that have a ' or " in them the editor sends them as �, or a ?. Is there a way in CFM or ASP to find and replace this characters? The Word formatting is not startard ' and "... Below is a pasted text from Word:
word and word <--- See the difference from 'word' and "word".

Thanks guys!
Dave

Sun, 10/03/2004 - 10:18

studio5

Joined: 03/10/2004

Posts: 2

RE: Pasted Text from Word...

Ok... got around this for now by adding this into the next page with inserts into the DB:

#URLDecode(Replace(URLEncodedFormat(Overview),"%EF%BF%BD","'","all"))#

Sun, 10/03/2004 - 10:19

jeichels

Joined: 06/10/2004

Posts: 17

RE: Pasted Text from Word...

I think it is always a good idea to build a server side filter for characters you don't want to be stored irregardless of what the client/javascript does. I use both NekoHtml to fix up HTML and a home spun filter to replace fix characters/vulgarity. I place them all in l a MultiFilter that fixes up any incoming text server side. Takes some work.