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Filtering Special Characters Injected by Microsoft Word

I have been having trouble with users pasting content directly from M$ Word into admin fields, so I set out to create some sort of filter that replaces these little terds with something more HTML friendly. Here’s what I came up with, efficiency aside:

http://gist.github.com/370004

Please fork and enhance if you find more of these evil demon characters anywhere.

I guess it should also be noted that this can be called from any model save method on fields that you wish to filter.

UPDATE:

Just use SmartyPants: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/smartypants/

Tags: django, microsoft, microsoft-word, python, special-characters, string-filtering

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