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willy jansen

Friday 01 October 2004 11:44:37 am

When you copy text from a MS Word document to ezpublish (e.g. to the body of an article) ezpubli converts "strange characters" such as curled quotes, dashes, the euro sign etc., to question marks.

A solution I'm using is to save the MS Word doc as a plain .txt file, open it in notepad and copy and paste from there.

Some questions:
- What is the reason for this conversion?
- Has it something to do with mysql?
- Does anybody know a fast method to copy-paste from MS Word avoid this conversion?

Gunnstein Lye

Monday 11 October 2004 5:20:52 am

What is the reason for this conversion?
MS Word uses special characters in some cases. A quote in Word is not the same character as a quote in emacs, for example. So sometimes you get such errors during copy/paste between MS programs and unix programs (and web programs, which are usually unix based).
It probably depends on the browser too. I would expect IE to convert this correctly, but I'm not sure.

willy jansen

Friday 15 October 2004 4:00:16 am

hi gunnstein

i suspected that already

does anybody know any good tricks that work around this problem?

eZ debug

Timing: Jan 18 2025 16:17:37
Script start
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Module start 'content'
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Module end 'content'
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Main resources:

Total runtime0.2027 sec
Peak memory usage2,048.0000 KB
Database Queries141

Timing points:

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Time accumulators:

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Ini load
Load cache0.00351.7450200.0002
Check MTime0.00130.6484200.0001
Mysql Total
Database connection0.00040.201310.0004
Mysqli_queries0.162880.29781410.0012
Looping result0.00130.62721390.0000
Template Total0.192795.110.1927
Template load0.00070.364710.0007
Template processing0.192094.728910.1920
Override
Cache load0.00050.265810.0005
Sytem overhead
Fetch class attribute can translate value0.00060.317710.0006
XML
Image XML parsing0.00020.123310.0002
General
dbfile0.00170.8594200.0001
String conversion0.00000.002530.0000
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Time used to render debug report: 0.0001 secs