Perl to kill MS BitDrool Eliminate MS Word Generated Curly Quotes, em Dashes, en Dashes, Elipsises, and Curly Single Apostrophes
10.06.06
So each of these quote marks, apostrophes, dashes, and an elipsis were pasted in from MS Word generated "special" or "smart" characters. This perl snippet substitutes a "legal" or text based character that will display in most browsers as valid HTML (rather than display a question mark (?) or other spurious character.
Clean this up!! It won't display properly in HTML, which is what this is all about. I know there are HTML special characters for those freakin' things, but you should get the drift from this hint. Where the first example of each element is in the regex, substitute the MS Word generated "smart" version of the respective character.
In other words, here is the one time you SHOULD write your code in an MS Word Processor!!! Be sure to add the special characters. Looks real weird when you paste the snippet into the rest of your code (in TextPad the special characters display as black bars), but use it that way, must be really in ASCII, but anyway it translates right back into the appropriate character.
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