[thelist] Removing Microsoft Word special characters
Peter Smulders
schmolle at pobox.com
Sun Sep 21 16:36:42 CDT 2003
Hi all,
Bird, Graham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to strip "smart" quotes, em dashes and ellipses from Word
> copy? (i.e. all "special" Word characters)
>
> Our editors cut and paste from Word and we get question marks in our HTML. I
> have been hunting high and low for a solution, but there doesn't seem to be
> an easy way to trap the characters. They just appear as the square
> non-character, which as far as I know is impossible to match on.
>
> Any advice would be great.
For entertainment as well as an effective solution, you might want to
read Mr. Raymond's rant on this topic[1] and download the associated
tool[2].
hth,
Schmolle
[1] http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/
[2] http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/demoroniser.zip
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