Text display problem

Hi,

I've built a simple CMS for a client. They cut and paste text in from Word, but characters such as ' and - appear as question marks on the page.

I've checked the source and they are question marks in the source so I assume the problem is when the data is sent to the database.

When the data is simply typed in the apostrphes are ok and are html encoded (htmlspecialchars()).

This has happened to me when I cut and paste from Word into a html document. I have to change each one into a 'normal' apostrophe.

Can I do something to change this, or will they have to alter each special character by hand?

Thanks,

Mei

If you are using iso-8859-1 encoding, these characters don't exist at all.

Microsoft decided to invent their own encoding very similar to 8859-1, but with some extra characters (they called this windows-something).

To resolve the problem, I recommend that you migrate your site entirely unicode, including the database.

Mark