Removing Microsoft Word Special Characters

[ATSadmin]

Hello...

I'm trying to find a way to remove all the horrible MS Word characters from content that has been posted to a discussion board. Aspects of the board are being converted to an RSS feed, and those pesky Word curly-quotes and such really screw up validaiton. 😉

simply doing this isn't working

$string = str_replace("”","\"",$string);

Anyone uncover a method for doing this?

Thanks.

[swr]

Google for "demoroniser" for a Perl script that does just that. You can probably port the relevant bits to PHP pretty easily (it's a very simple script).

[ATSadmin]

It's what I need... but alas... I've migrated to PHP from CF and never coded in Perl... so the conversion will be a bit fuzzy for me.