When you try pasting rich text from, say, Microsoft Word into HTML or plain text, certain characters are not recognised and come out as strange symbols. This tag strips out any non-ascii characaters from a passed form variable and converts them into their HTML equivilant.
Usage
Useful when entering data into a database or saving to a file from a text area.
Attributes
Name
Type
Description
formname
Required
The name of the form field that contains the text to parse.