Receive unknown characters

alvito · **Joined:** Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:30 pm **Posts:** 1

Hello i receive few unknown characters like '%u201C', '%u201D' in the body of email. Currently i'm using ajax contact form auto responder v-2.1. How do I fix this ?

admin · **Joined:** Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:04 am **Posts:** 90

Those unknown characters are come from MsWord smart tag. If you send message which is copied from msword document then such characters may come. To prevent it happening again you have to convert those characters into their ASCII equivalents.
Open file /mail/index.php for editing. You can use windows WordPad or any PHP editor. At line-415 find the string

Quote:

$message = $this->strip_slashes(rawurldecode($_POST["message"]));

After that line add the following three lines.

Code:

$message =str_replace('%u201C','"',str_replace('%u201D','"', $message));
$message =str_replace("%u2018","'",str_replace("%u2019","'",$message));
$message= str_replace("%u2013","-",$message);

Save that document and upload it to your server.

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