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Asked: 2026-05-22T15:41:30+00:00

My website has a wysiwyg editor- logged in users save text to an SQL

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My website has a wysiwyg editor- logged in users save text to an SQL database.

When I retrieve this text later- there are occasional malformed characters.
For instance an HTML bullet point (which I suspect is an <ul> and <li> tag)
– comes out as a question mark in a black diamond.

Is the wysiwyg editor spitting out bad code? I did use nicEdit- I know tinyMCE is better,
but nicEdit is really light-weight. I’ll switch if I have to.

Or should I run the text through some kind of filter function?

My pages are build w/ PHP- any idea how I can fix this bug?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Probably do both:

    a) switch to a Wysiwyg editor that produces valid xhtml to start with, and

    b) parse/validate/sanitize whatever is being sent by the end-users (using html purifier, php’s dom library, or other) before storing it.

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