odd characters in textarea

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In my kin site we have a textarea field allowing people to paste in text, usually from a word document that wouldn't upload properly. Many times there are odd characters showing up in that pasted text. Help!

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Not sure why MS Word docs wouldn't upload properly, but ...

When you copy and paste from a Word doc, it takes the non-printing formatting characters with it. If you paste in to a simple non-WTSIWYG text area, those will show up as garbage. So you'll have to enable WYSIWYG.

I believe TinyMCE 3 has a feature to deal with that, either a "Copy from MS Word" button, or just a built in feature, depending what version of MCE and what extensions / plugins you have installed for it.

-- hugh
 
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