Sorry to dredge up this old topic, but I can't seem to get either the demoroniser code or Stan's decruft code to replace the MS characters. I typed "hello" in MS Word and copy/pasted it into a form I created. I logged the before and after the "conversion" values of the string and they showed:
Before: \x93hello\x94
After: \xef\xbe\x93hello\xef\xbe\x94
(\x93 and \x94 are the MS smart quotes)
It looks like the code to replace the MS characters is adding more junk instead of removing them. I can't figure out what is wrong. I even stripped down the proc to search only for \x93 and it still adds the garbage.
set some_string [string map {x93 {"}} $some_string]
I'm using AOLServer 4.0 with TCL 8.4.
I would appreciate any help or insights. Thanks!
Gilbert
