“Idont’ think this will work”.

See it worked! It is only when copying and pasting from MS Word. I have a feeling that it is related to Unicode somehow.

See 0003189 for more details.

When reporting a new bug with this kind of string : “Idont’ think this will work” (paste from Word, or from IE 6), I got :

APPLICATION ERROR #200
A required parameter to this page was not found.

I can't submit the bug.

Hi,

had the same problem in different projects, i use this function to clean the code. (function idea orginal from "j at pureftpd dot org" -> http://at.php.net/strtr )

Rufinus

function strip_evil($str){
return strtr($str,
"\x82\x83\x84\x85\x86\x87\x89\x8a\x8b\x8c\x8e\x91\x92\x93\x94\x95\x96\x97\x98\x99\x9a\x9b\x9c\x9e\x9f",
"'f\".**^\xa6<\xbc\xb4''\"\"---~ \xa8> \xb8 "
);
}

This bug is a major problem for me. We cannot copy/paste from MS Word into mantis without getting the "application # 200 error"

I tried using the function rufinus added to this bug...however this did not work.

Are there any other ideas on how to solve this issue? Any help is appreciated as this is a major road black for us now.

SOLUTION:
As per vbdoctor in bug 0003831:
Try changing the character set in lang/strings_english.txt to:
$s_charset = 'windows-1252';

This is a work around for a bug in Internet Explorer. Let me know how it goes.

This worked great for me! I tried using the cleaning functions posted in other bugs related to this issue and had no luck.

All this bugs are duplicates of 0003833

We should make an announcement on the Mantis site about this or something. Otherwise this is going to come up many times again.