Textarea Quotation Marks and Apostrophes

[neomorpheus]

When copying and pasting text from MS-Word, all quotes and apostrophes get changed to ? marks.
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This is my essay
I am ?really? good at it, you know!
Do you want to?s give ?me? a scholarship?
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I have the following tag onhe top...

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

It really doesnt help. Can somebody help me with this?

Thanks

 

[TruthInSatire]

question marks huh? i've seen them turn into squares before, never question marks. neat. I usualy just remove any kind of formatting in word before I copy it. If you're the only user that isn't a problem, if you're making this for allot of users you may want to do some programming so they don't have to do that...

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

 

[neomorpheus]

Yeah, this is going to be used by a lot of users who do not want to be restricted to using notepad for editing and then pasting. Most of them wouldnt read the instructions even if we posted them. Since Word is most commonly used editor, it poses a big headache for us. I do need to do some programming to fix it b4 it goes in to the database and that is where I need some pointers. Please help. Thanks