I keep getting these weird boxes in the text that I insert to my database:
It seems to cause some formatting issues, but mainly it shows as a question mark on an webpage.
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Is there a function to get rid of those?
It probably has something to do with your character encoding. What is the character encoding used on your website and that for your database?
The column collation in the database: latin1_swedish_ci
Is that what you mean? or is there somewhere else I find character encoding?
I think that is it, at least on the database side.
Disclaimer: this is one of my weak areas, so you would need someone else to actually help you solve the problem correctly.
Are you copying and pasting from a word doc? If so, that could be the reason.