I co-run a music site, free-magazine.co.uk. We have members submit their own articles, then they are approved and make it into the main website.
The problem is that most users write their articles in Word and copy and paste them into the textarea. Because Word replaces " with curly brackets, whilst they appear fine in the text editing area, they become ? in IE and 'entity not found' symbols in Firefox.
I have found 2 solutions:
1. Have users re-type all curly quotes, hyphens and em dashes in the textarea before submitting.
2. Change the setting in Word not to autocorrect to curly quotes.
The problem is my users are lazy and stupid and either can't or won't do either of these, and my editor is getting pissed off.
What I want to know is if there's a way of replacing these characters; surely it's not as easy as str_replace?
The problem is that most users write their articles in Word and copy and paste them into the textarea. Because Word replaces " with curly brackets, whilst they appear fine in the text editing area, they become ? in IE and 'entity not found' symbols in Firefox.
I have found 2 solutions:
1. Have users re-type all curly quotes, hyphens and em dashes in the textarea before submitting.
2. Change the setting in Word not to autocorrect to curly quotes.
The problem is my users are lazy and stupid and either can't or won't do either of these, and my editor is getting pissed off.
What I want to know is if there's a way of replacing these characters; surely it's not as easy as str_replace?
