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    Posted by kstauff  · 05-04-2013 - 21:39

    (Using PHPdocX 3.1)

    I am converting IMS Content Package HTML to Word documents. I have some discovered an issue with some of the HTML entities. For example the single down arrow ↓ (& darr;) works fine in the conversion. However, the double down arrow ⇓(& dArr;) breaks in the word document. I tried converting from the named HTML entities to HTML decimal (e.g. & #8594;) (And note that the spaces aren't being used in the actual entities in the code).

    The only thing that I have found that works is to do a string replace in the code:
    $output = str_replace("& dArr;","& darr;",$output);

    But obviously I don't want to do this for every case like this that turns up. Is there anything else I can try?

    Thanks,
    Karen