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[nycphp-talk] Converting the pesky MS Word quotes and other characters

Michael Southwell michael.southwell at nyphp.com
Wed Oct 29 22:58:41 EDT 2008


Hans Zaunere 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.
> 
> Word/etc always manages to create new and exciting chars, but the following
> usually take care of most of them.
> 
> $this->Value = str_replace(array(chr(0x92),chr(0x93),
> chr(0x94),chr(0x96),chr(0x97),chr(0x85)),
> array('\'','"','"','-','-','...'),$this->Value);

I would add to this the following:
chr(0x91) -> '’' [backtick]
chr(0xa0) -> ' ' [space]


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