ezpubli converts curly quotes to question marks

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willy jansen	Friday 01 October 2004 11:44:37 am When you copy text from a MS Word document to ezpublish (e.g. to the body of an article) ezpubli converts "strange characters" such as curled quotes, dashes, the euro sign etc., to question marks. A solution I'm using is to save the MS Word doc as a plain .txt file, open it in notepad and copy and paste from there. Some questions: - What is the reason for this conversion? - Has it something to do with mysql? - Does anybody know a fast method to copy-paste from MS Word avoid this conversion?
Gunnstein Lye	Monday 11 October 2004 5:20:52 am What is the reason for this conversion? MS Word uses special characters in some cases. A quote in Word is not the same character as a quote in emacs, for example. So sometimes you get such errors during copy/paste between MS programs and unix programs (and web programs, which are usually unix based). It probably depends on the browser too. I would expect IE to convert this correctly, but I'm not sure.
willy jansen	Friday 15 October 2004 4:00:16 am hi gunnstein i suspected that already does anybody know any good tricks that work around this problem?

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Friday 01 October 2004 11:44:37 am

When you copy text from a MS Word document to ezpublish (e.g. to the body of an article) ezpubli converts "strange characters" such as curled quotes, dashes, the euro sign etc., to question marks.

A solution I'm using is to save the MS Word doc as a plain .txt file, open it in notepad and copy and paste from there.

Some questions:
- What is the reason for this conversion?
- Has it something to do with mysql?
- Does anybody know a fast method to copy-paste from MS Word avoid this conversion?

Gunnstein Lye

Monday 11 October 2004 5:20:52 am

What is the reason for this conversion?
MS Word uses special characters in some cases. A quote in Word is not the same character as a quote in emacs, for example. So sometimes you get such errors during copy/paste between MS programs and unix programs (and web programs, which are usually unix based).
It probably depends on the browser too. I would expect IE to convert this correctly, but I'm not sure.

willy jansen

Friday 15 October 2004 4:00:16 am

hi gunnstein

i suspected that already

does anybody know any good tricks that work around this problem?