Why would people cut and paste from word?
It’s not necessarily Word. It’s the higher order character set. My hunch is that the database is fine with it, but the pipeline (jdbc driver) back to the display page (jsp) is corrupting the transfer by interpreting the high order bits as the additional characters.
I did notice when the articles began showing the scrambled characters in the threads, the goofy characters no longer appeared on the news article listing page as they used to. It’s like one issue got fixed, but caused the problem in a different place. Further, I’m just guessing this is similar to an issue my team ran into awhile back.
Ah, the heatbreak of programming ...
- My program doesn’t work, and I don’t know why ...
- My program works, and I don’t know why. :o}