Hi,

Im importing alot of text that contains bits such as:

“ and ” and ’

These are not understand in IE/FF and come up as either squares or diamond question marks.

Any ideas how i can dynamically remove them just before echoing out the text?

Regards,
Michael

You could call htmlentities on that piece of text and see if that works. Otherwise, use a multibyte encoding.

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htmlentities work i thought but (in my case) it gives errors in W3C. I recommend replacing them with " and ' which is what i simply do :>

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Nunchaku! Who doesn't like martial arts? =)

I often encounter this problem when clients post a chunk of text from Word.
If you do a find and replace in word, often it will re-replace them with what was originally there.
What i've started doing is a find and replace within notepad... simple - but it works better.
Also, htmlentities shouldn't hinder your validation... it simply alters text. Maybe you have HTML tags in the text?
nl2br also helps when replacing "new lines" with "break tags"

hope that helps

I have tried the following but it doesnt seem to do anything at all:

I couldnt work out what options to use with htmlentities as it always seemed to do nothing.

There is too much information to go through manually and correct them by hand.

Thanks for any more advice.

You could probably fix this error by setting your HTML encoding type to ISO-8859-1 (western). You are most likely on UTF-8, because when I change the page encoding to that, those question marks pop up.

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i changed to this:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

But they still come up as squares?