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[csnyder]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone on here found a viable solution?  Everything seems to work on the
> www side of things but as soon as i use the data in an RSS feed it does not
> seem to like the MS Word characters.
>

That's for sure.

Here's what I use, there's probably a more elegant/readable way to do it.

// convert smart quotes and mdashes
$wordchars=array('—','"','"',''',''',"…");
$fixedchars=array('&mdash;','&quot;','&quot;',"'","'","&hellip;");
$output = str_replace( $wordchars, $fixedchars, $output );

- chris.