Rails - Nov 2005 - [OT] Sanitizing Characters In Pasted Text

Because Microsoft Word changes quotes to curly quotes, double dashes to
en-dashes, etc., copied / pasted text from Word into a textarea can contain
characters not rendered the same in all browsers. Put more bluntly, when
they paste from Word, it looks like cr@p on my Mac.

I¹ve seen this question asked before, but never seen the answer. Is there
any translation table between Word¹s special characters and HTML named
entities?

Thanks


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Hi Steve,

There''s a Perl script called "demoronizer" that does
something like
this - perhaps you could use it as a reference:
http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/11/03/demoronizer.html

Cheers!

-DF

On 11/29/05, Steve Ross
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wrote:
>  Because Microsoft Word changes quotes to curly quotes, double dashes to
> en-dashes, etc., copied / pasted text from Word into a textarea can contain
> characters not rendered the same in all browsers. Put more bluntly, when
> they paste from Word, it looks like cr@p on my Mac.
>
>  I''ve seen this question asked before, but never seen the answer.
Is there
> any translation table between Word''s special characters and HTML
named
> entities?
>
>  Thanks
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