From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Mark Shaw  wrote:   
   >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.   
      
   I use this tool frequently. It works great. It addresses specific   
   non-ASCII characters and makes an ASCII substitution but doesn't address   
   others. Letters already combined with diacritical marks do not have   
   ASCII substitutions, for instance.   
      
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