Dealing With Erroneous Characters x 2

[Michael42]

Hello, In ColdFusion MX when I grab a value from a form POST using 'myvar =
form.notes' I sometimes get wierd translations if a user enters some
non-standard characters. This seems to happen most often in a free form fields
to hold comments and notes. On my form I am using both text and texarea
fields. Examples: & translates to: &amp&amp ' translates to an
empty string etc. Is there a function or method that can be used to save these
characters properly? Thanks very much, Michael P.S. This post has gone
unaswered in the general forum.

[H3ath0r]

If the original text is coming from MS Word, your text fields may be full of
characters that appear like strange crap once processed by the browser form.
Shawn Porter has written a brilliant little UDF at
[url]http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?id=725[/url] that coverts MS Word characters into a
more standard format. Write back if you're unsure how to use the UDF. Heather