MS Word Special Characters and PHP

[jdc44]

A user copy-pasting records from a Word document into a FileMaker database. Then an export text file is created. This text file is retaining MS Word charactes such as "elipsis" ( ... ).

This export file is uploaded via a web form into our oracle database.

Then, we use php to get the records from Oracle and display them on a web page when queried by some user.

The elipsis are showing as upside-down question marks.

Question: How to stop this using code on the web page uploads the file or the web page that displays the results, or both?

Is there some php function that will work on MS Word special characters?

Thanks for any help.

[rincewind456]

In the manual theres a use contributed function for this.