Converting Microsoft Word special characters with PHP

Question

I am trying to convert Word text pasted by users that contain MS Word ellipsis and long dash before processing it further.

I found an old proposed solution here to t

Answer 1

Great solution. I copied and pasted it and it worked with out a problem. On further study, I added a few characters that were not in the search and replace array. In order to find the ASCII character id numbers, I wrote a PHP function which shows what the ASCII character number is:

function stdump($s){

  for($i=0;$i";
}

The character is display and next to it the ascii number is show in parenthesis. Like this:

echo stdump("GPUs…");

produces:

G(71)P(80)U(85)s(115)â(226)€(128)¦(166)

Hope this helps.

--Keith