It works, the code you posted was perfect. It seems to change the
characters to their htmlspecial character equivalent, which I wasn't
expecting, but which is infinitely better than before.
Thanks again!
-Courtney
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Christensen, Courtney
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] users copy and paste "bad" special characters
from MS Word
Looks like the method described here is probably what
you want:
http://shiflett.org/blog/2005/oct/convert-smart-quotes-with-php
-- Jim
That looks like exactly what I need. Thank you, Jim, and I applaud your
mad search skills. I'd never heard them called "smart quotes". If
anyone cares to know the outcome I'll let you know once I've tested?
-Courtney