[thelist] acsii return from form field
Edwin Martin
edwin at bitstorm.org
Tue Mar 16 07:14:57 CST 2004
kris burford wrote:
> so, if someone pastes a word document with "smart" quotes into the form,
> all the quotes reach the server as "?"
>
> this is don't understand.
Smart quotes are a Microsoft thing. It's not a standard (not
even a recommendation).
Read all about it here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/
(Scroll down to "Don’t Misquote Me").
Quote:
"Do not, under any circumstances, use “ through •
for curly quotes."
> i've tried altering the charset (from iso-8859-1 to UTF-8), the form
> enctype and have trawled through the apache docs, all to no avail.
>
> can anyone shed some light as to why anything that falls within the
> ascii range 127 - 160 is automatically tranformed to ? ??
The non-standard codes are probably send over but ord() sees
they're not standard and returns "?".
Edwin Martin
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