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

it works for me:

$str=file_get_contents($file); 

$array=array("‘"=>"'","’"=>"'","”"=>'"',"“"=>'"',"–"=>"-","—"=>"-","–"=>"-","…"=>"...");

$str = strtr( $str,$array);

file_put_contents($file,$str);