[KLUG Programming] PHP, MySQL and MS Word Cut-n-Paste

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 14:08, Todd Pillars wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to strip the MS Word cruft out of a cut and 
> paste?  Document formating seems to be creeping into a MySQL database, 
> when pasting from MS Word into a PHP form.

Are you literally cutting/copying out of MS Word? You might try pasting
first into Notepad, then cutting from there to your form. A little
crufty, but a nice, quick'n'dirty way to strip out formatting.


> I have tried both utf8_convert and mysql_real_escape_string() but some 
> unicode (hex) characters are still getting by.

Doesn't sound like that's what's going on, though...

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