MS Smart Quotes Causing Havoc 1

[DMAN3021]

Alright,

I've got this smart quotes problem, where when I, or users of my web app, copy a text from word to a text area and submit it, quotes produced by MS Word are turned into ugly symbols.

I've tried using the replace=() function, I've tried using a cf script to replace characters above 128, but nothing is working!

Please, if anyone knows of a way to fix this problem, I've run out of ideas...

 

[webmigit]

PHP is our friend today

http://codewalkers.com/forum/index.php?action=displaythread&forum=phpcoding&id=5244&realm=default

I tried googling for "smartquotes" "cold fusion" and I got a forum where a php programmer was having a similar problem.

$quotes = array(chr(145), chr(146), chr(147), chr(148));
$xhquotes = array("'","'", """, """);

$clean_text= str_replace($quotes,$xhquotes,$file_text);

The good news is here's how to write that in CF:

<cfset newstring = replacelist(string,"#chr(145)#,#chr(146)#,#chr(147)#,#chr(148)#","&#39;,&#39;,&#34;,&#34;")>

A direct code import would look like this...

<cfset quotes = ListToArray("#chr(145)#,#chr(146)#,#chr(147)#,#chr(148)#")>
<cfset xhquotes=ListToArray("&#39;,&#39;,&#34;,&#34;")>
<cfset clean_text=replacelist(string,ArrayToList(quotes),ArrayToList(xhquotes))>

Which of course converts to an array and back to a list which isn't useful. I was just demonstrating because someone asked me the other day why CF needs lists AND arrays. I've gotta say, they're both great for their own reasons.

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[ecobb]

That's pretty slick, webmigit!



Hope This Helps!

Ecobb
Beer Consumption Analyst

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[DMAN3021]

Hey,

Thanks for your help Webmigit. The code you wrote is stuff that I had tried before, and still I was unable to get it to work. However, I just found out that this problem might have something to do with character sets.

So I tried it out, adding the following lines to the application.cfm file that I created earlier in my web-application's directory.

<cfset setEncoding("form","ISO-8859-1")>

<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

It was difficult to find but now works like a charm. Thanks for you help!

Dan...