Re: Text to xml: Encoding issues

[Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Paul <paul -dot- inbar -at- intel -dot- com> wrote:

> Can anyone point me to information dealing with character encoding? ...
> For instance, a common occurrence is that the developers copy and
> paste from Word and include smart quotes. ...
> I can't figure out how to get Perl to be able to do this automatically.

Have a look at:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

It is a Perl script designed to "correct moronic and gratuitously incompatible
HTML generated by Microsoft applications". One thing it fixes is "smart"
quotes.

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