Convert all characters to ISO-8859-1?

I have a script that posts text to the USENET. Occasionally, when someone
cuts and pastes text into the form field, they cut and paste a character
that isn't part of charset ISO-8859-1, such as a curly looking single
quote, etc.

I did some searching, but couldn't find and php function that would filter
this? Is there anything anyone has written, something like:

$string = convert_charset($string,ISO-8859-1);

?

If not, what else could I do to do this? (Yes I realize some of the
problems involved.)

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Sugapablo wrote:
> I have a script that posts text to the USENET. Occasionally, when someone
> cuts and pastes text into the form field, they cut and paste a character
> that isn't part of charset ISO-8859-1, such as a curly looking single
> quote, etc.

http://www.php.net/iconv does encoding conversions, but chances are
that's not quite what you're looking for.

I've found that certain characters break form-submissions from Internet
Explorer (certain fields in the form are lost - don't ask me why) -
ironically enough it only affects IE, and the reason the characters are
a problem is because they're put in by Microsoft Word's autocorrect - so
I've made a function that removes all these characters.

The characters are ascii 150 (the long hyphen), 148 (smart-quote), 146
(single smart-quote) and 133 (tripple dots). So I just do this:

str_replace(chr(150), "-", str_replace(chr(148), '"',
str_replace(chr(146), "'", str_replace(chr(133), "...", $text))));

And an equivalent client-side version called by onsubmit on the form,
and no more problem :)


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Sugapablo wrote:
> I have a script that posts text to the USENET. Occasionally, when
someone
> cuts and pastes text into the form field, they cut and paste a
character
> that isn't part of charset ISO-8859-1, such as a curly looking single
> quote, etc.

Isn't actually get converted to html entities when the form is get
posted? Or is that a problem for you?

> I did some searching, but couldn't find and php function that would
filter
> this? Is there anything anyone has written, something like:
>
> $string = convert_charset($string,ISO-8859-1);

Not sure <http://in.php.net/utf8_decode>


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Nope. In the Microsoft universe ISO-8859-1 = CP1252, so curly quotes
don't get escaped.