title: Strange characters appearing after copy/pasting in forms/emails
body: <p>I have users who sometimes paste things into my site's forms after copying something from their Gmail.  The characters look normal when they paste it, but in the database they have extra special characters that appear.</p>
  
  <p>Here is an example of the text with the the special characters.
  It originally happened on this page:
  <a href="http://www.hikingsanfrancisco.com/hiker_community/scheduled_hike_event.php?hike_event_id=91" rel="nofollow">http://www.hikingsanfrancisco.com/hiker_community/scheduled_hike_event.php?hike_event_id=91</a></p>
  
  <p>But it looks like the person who made it has cleaned up the strange characters.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to stop this from happening in the future? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Alex</p>
  
  <p>I use PHP and MySQL</p>