Removing / replacing unwanted characters in data
Posted: Wed Aug 08, 2007 12:59 pm
I've got a client who insists on entering data into their db from word and other places where there are all kinds of funky characters that my website is not properly handling. I do not have access to the server site code, so I cannot really do any kind of fancy character encoding voodoo. I need to be able to correct all of the funky characters before they go into the database. Is there an application or a library or something I can use to filter out or replace all that garbage? Things like Word's special apostrophe character and emdashes and that sort of thing? Thanks.