[thelist] Special chars on web pages

[Arlen.P.Walker at jci.com]

>Any assistance as to how to rectify this is much appreciated.  The idea
>would be if we could figure out how to prevent MS Word from using or
>outputting these characters because all of the writers use MS Word.  I,
>however, do not use MS Word and don't know it.

I've never found a way to stop Word from doing that, so I've whipped up a
quick BBEdit macro that changes all those marks to standard entity numbers.
I can "fix" and entire folder full of those files in less than a minute.

Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224

Arlen.P.Walker at JCI.Com
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