From: mshaw@panix.com   
      
   David Carson  wrote:   
      
   > Anything I compose myself will be in pure 7-bit ASCII, but when I   
   > copy'n'paste, there is liable to be some 8-bit stuff. My newsreader's   
   > editor turns a lot of it into garbage that I remove by hand, but   
   > sometimes it leaves things like curvy quotation marks and apostrophes   
   > as-is. Tell me what you recommend that I do, preferably other than   
   > more editing by hand. E-mail me if it makes more sense.   
      
   For cleaning text before posting, I use this utility:   
      
   https://dan.hersam.com/tools/smart-quotes.php   
      
   That may be more trouble than you'd want to go through, though.   
      
   --   
   Mark Shaw                                        moc TOD liamg TA wahsnm   
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