Hi All

Merry, Merry

Visitors to my site submit info through a form. Occasionally, there is a strange charater that shows up at the front of each field.

For example, here is what the user keys in:

FRED

But that once-in-a-while strange character makes it look like this:

ÂFRED

What the?

1. Where does that  come from?

2. I can't tell whether it's caused on the user side or maybe there is something strange with my script

3. Not all submissions have that  at the front of the field, only a few submissions have generated this so far.

Any ideas?

Many thanks


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Hi Dog tags that looks like a Capital A ring :


It's used in some north european languages etc.

I have been getting weird characters now and again in form submissions and thus implemented a search and destroy LOL;), no a search and replace system that picked them up and replaced them. Maybe you could do a string replace function ?

PS I nearly always seemed to get this with people that I verified all used FireFox, but that may not be a secure verdict since it only happened a few times and I was able to replicate it moving from copy and paste from Word into FireFox when the character encoding function was playing up...

Hope this helps,

John
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Ah, thanks. That gives me something to go on. I'll look into this. Sure would like to nail this little bugger

Many thanks, John

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Hi John

I looked into this char more, and I don't think it's an A-ring.

The symbol above it is not a ring, but a carat:

^

Any idea what that one might be?

Many thanks

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I think I found it:

 <font face="Symbol">&#194;</font>
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/symbol.html

 &Acirc; Latin capital letter A with circumflex
http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wgl4.html

Now, the big question is why in the world is it showing up in some of my form-submitted data?

It's driving me crazy

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Hi,
Can you have a look if it is always followed by the same character and see what the combination of that character and another might be ? Pure coincidence, I have just come across this
instead of é in word as data pulled from the database in a form.

Should have been République and was république

This might be your answer that an accent got muddled up when inserted into the database.

When I saw it I was thinking that they may well be what you are encountering and that the following letter might help you find an answer in Google.

Hope this helps,

John
Significant Media

Fascinating. I'll look around and see if I can come up with anything. It is an odd situation.

Thanks

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