[Tfug] Decoding Multibyte Characters

[keith smith]

I have a perplexing problem.

When I cut and paste from OpenOffice Writer and the text contains a left quote, right quote, or a long dash, PHP converts it to 3 characters with in IE looks like a box and in FireFox looks like a diamond with a question mark.  It is also returned as 3 characters.

I've experimented with the Multibyte functions and can convert the offending character to a single question mark by doing :

$str = mb_convert_encoding($str, "ASCII","UTF-8");

mb_internal_encoding() returns UTF-8

I'm at a loss for isolating these characters and converting them to the proper character.

Any help is much appreciated.

Keith


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