> that a user pastes content

Or he drags&drops a file, which is uploaded.

But yes I also expect copy and paste

> (with or without formatting?)

And that's exactly the point, in what way is a pasted text still "Word"? ¹

I've already seen ...

... copied out of Word.

It also depends on the OS, the intermediate Clipboard, browser and attributes of the receiving textarea² used in the form.

The OP is keeping us guessing, instead of just showing us the exact text he gets inside his CGI.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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¹) or to even quote the OP twice a "Word document"

²) "newer" browsers allow WYSIWYG editing

In reply to Re^4: Plain Text To HTML by LanX
in thread Plain Text To HTML by Milti

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