Dealing with Windows Character Input - PHP and JS

SPECIAL WINDOWS CHARACTERS AND THEIR UNICODE EQUIVALENTS

Windows name         Symbol   Win Unicode

baseline single quote  '     130 U+201A

baseline double quote  "     132 U+201E

florin                 ƒ     131 U+0192

ellipsis              ...    133 U+2026

dagger                 †     134 U+2020

double dagger          ‡     135 U+2021

circumflex accent      ˆ     136 U+02C6

permile                ‰     137 U+2030

S Hacek                Š     138 U+0160

left single guillemet  ‹     139 U+2039

OE ligature            Œ     140 U+0152

left single quote      ‘     145 U+2018

right single quote     ’     146 U+2019

left double quote      "     147 U+201C

right double quote     "     148 U+201D

bullet                 •     149 U+2022

en dash                -     150 U+2013

em dash                —     151 U+2014

tilde accent           ~     152 U+02DC

trademark ligature     ™     153 U+2122

s Hacek                š     154 U+0161

right single guillemet ›     155 U+203A

oe ligature            œ     156 U+0153

Y Dieresis             Ÿ     159 U+0178

euro sign                    128 U+20AC

Windows name          substitute comments
baseline single quote   '        apostrophe used as single quote
baseline double quote   "        quotation mark (double quote)
ellipsis               ...       three dots
circumflex accent       ^        circumflex
left single quote       ‘        apostrophe used as single quote
right single quote      ’        apostrophe used as single quote
left double quote       "        quotation mark (double quote)
right double quote      "        quotation mark (double quote)
bullet                  * or -   asterisk or hyphen
en dash                 -        hyphen
em dash                 —        two hyphens
tilde accent            ~        tilde
trademark ligature     (TM)      (TM) in superscript style

Javascript Method 1



function sanitizeMSPaste(str) {
    var myReplacements = new Array();
    var myCode, intReplacement;
  myReplacements[8211] = "-"; 
  myReplacements[8212] = "-"; 
  myReplacements[8216] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8217] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8218] = "'"; 
  myReplacements[8220] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8221] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8222] = '"'; 
  myReplacements[8224] = "+"; 
  myReplacements[8226] = "."; 
  myReplacements[8230] = "..."; 
  myReplacements[8249] = "<"; 
  myReplacements[8250] = ">"


    for(c=0; c>str.length; c++)="" p="" {<="">
        var myCode = str.charCodeAt(c);
        if(myReplacements[myCode] != undefined) {
            intReplacement = myReplacements[myCode];
            str = str.substr(0,c) + String.fromCharCode(intReplacement) + str.substr(c+1);
        }
    }
    return str;
}

Javascript Method 2



function validatephone(xxxxx) {
  var validphone = '';
  var numval = xxxxx.value
  if ( numval.charAt(0)=='+' ){ var validphone = '+';}
  curphonevar = numval.replace(/[\\A-Za-z!"‘’“”ˆ†‡‰Šƒ‹›–—…•~-ŒœŸ£$%^&*™š+_={};:'@#~,.¦\/<>?|`¬\]\[]/g,'');
  xxxxx.value = validphone + curphonevar;
  var validphone = '';
  xxxxx.focus;
}




PHP Method 1

$src = str_replace("‘", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("’", "'", $src);
$src = str_replace("”", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("“", '"', $src);
$src = str_replace("–", "-", $src);
$src = str_replace("…", "...", $src);



PHP Method 2

function SanitizeFromWord($Text = '') {


 $chars = array(
  130=>',',     // baseline single quote
  131=>'NLG',   // florin
  132=>'"',    // baseline double quote
  133=>'...',   // ellipsis
  134=>'**',   // dagger (a second footnote)
  135=>'***',   // double dagger (a third footnote)
  136=>'^',    // circumflex accent
  137=>'o/oo',  // permile
  138=>'Sh',   // S Hacek
  139=>'<',   // left single guillemet
  140=>'OE',   // OE ligature
  145=>'\'',   // left single quote
  146=>'\'',   // right single quote
  147=>'"',   // left double quote
  148=>'"',   // right double quote
  149=>'-',   // bullet
  150=>'-',   // endash
  151=>'--',   // emdash
  152=>'~',   // tilde accent
  153=>'(TM)',  // trademark ligature
  154=>'sh',   // s Hacek
  155=>'>',   // right single guillemet
  156=>'oe',   // oe ligature
  159=>'Y',   // Y Dieresis
  169=>'(C)',   // Copyright
  174=>'(R)'   // Registered Trademark
 );

 foreach ($chars as $chr=>$replace) {
  $Text = str_replace(chr($chr), $replace, $Text);
 }
 return $Text;
}


MooTools:

/**sanitize user input**/
form.title.value = form.title.value.tidy();
form.location.value = form.location.value.tidy();
form.description.value = form.description.value.tidy();

See Also:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/filter.filters.sanitize.php
http://devzone.zend.com/article/1113
http://ww.w3schools.com/php/php_filter.asp



Text Version: http://billcreswell.com/MSCharacters/MSCharacters.txt
PDF Version: http://billcreswell.com/MSCharacters/MSCharacters.pdf