I don't know of any currently existing extension to handle this, but the creation of one should be relatively straight forward. Here's a stub:
$wfHooks['ArticleSave'][] = 'removeBadCharsOnSave'; function removeBadCharsOnSave( &$article, &$user, &$text, &$summary ) { // do something to $text return true; }
Not sure exactly what to do to $text. PHP's native utf8_decode() may do the trick, or you may have to use preg_replace(), or something else. :/
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 9/25/07, Christensen, Courtney ChristensenC@battelle.org wrote:
Hi,
Our set up is: MediaWiki: 1.9.2 (r2132) PHP: 5.2.2 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 5.0.15-nt running on IIS
Our users sometimes author in MS Word and then copy and paste their article text into the MediaWiki edit box. Word often automatically changes some characters as you type such as turning a dash into an mdash, or a single quote into an apostrophe. These things generally display fine in MediaWiki, however, we have to export the contents of the wiki to be imported into a final environment for client approval. Unfortunately I don't have the authority to change the rather odd process. Since I think the users will continue to paste things in from Word, does anyone know of an extension or tool which would "clean" the text input into the wiki? I was unable to find anything like this in the Extensions pages.
- Courtney Christensen
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