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Special characters in newsletters & email notifications when copy-pasting from Microsoft Word

Status
Closed
Subject
Special characters in newsletters & email notifications when copy-pasting from Microsoft Word
Version
1.9.x
Category
  • Usability
Feature
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Newsletters
Watch (email notifications of changes)
Resolution status
Works For Me
Submitted by
Marc Laporte
Volunteered to solve
sylvieg
Lastmod by
Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist
Rating
(0)
Description

Please see:

"Put simply, I have a text box, and people commonly cut + paste
information into this text box from Microsoft word. The problem is that
word has all types of funky characters (smart quotes, em-dashes), that
the system (php-based) doesn't understand. Does anyone know of a way to
filter out these Microsoft-specific characters? Does PHP have a special
function for this? Thanks a lot!"
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread159156.html

I have problems with oe, and OE too. (used in French)

In Tiki, when the page is saved, it is OK for viewing & printing.
However, newsletters & email notifications (of articles & wiki pages)
are sent with a question mark instead of these characters.

Has anyone figured this out for Tiki? We'd need some sort of cleaning
code in the email class?

Importance
5
Priority
25
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
951
Created
Friday 05 January, 2007 06:31:05 UTC
by Unknown
LastModif
Wednesday 13 October, 2021 14:37:10 UTC


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