Converting non ASCII Chars into ASCII automatically?

[HairyArse]

Hi guys, I've created a content management system using PHP and SQL and so far it's going great apart from one problem.

Some of the users of my site like to write their articles in MS word first and then paste the text into my CMS, and this often inserts non ASCII characters into the text which causes lots of problems when it comes to parsing the data.

So is there a fucntion or piece of code I can use to solve this?

[vaaaska]

What about telling them to convert their docs to txt first? God I hate MS getting in the way of progress...

[Threehearts]

hi.

<textarea name="textarea" onChange="this.value = encodeURI(this.value);"></textarea>

Would this help?
Is clientsided but not even a line of code.
Accordung to documentation it should work on every browser one can reasonablely expect to be used in a company environment.

jakob