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[Daniel Convissor]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:46:17PM -0500, Marc Antony Vose wrote:
> 
> How do people here handle stripping crap like curly quotes out of 
> text that users are pasting from Microsoft Word?

    $search = array(
        '/[\x07\x95]/',
        '/\x85/',
        '/[\x91\x92]/',
        '/[\x93\x94]/',
    );
    $replace = array(
        '-',
        '...',
        '\'',
        '"',
    );
    $data = preg_replace($search, $replace, $data);

--Dan

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