Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): Re: Tip#93: Add optional support to automatically remove smart quotes from textareas

Thanks for pointing that out. Yes we do want to store the data in unicode format, it should already be formatted that way, and the fact that Word uses illegals characters is the problem. I'll take at look at unmoroniser and make sure we are converting the data properly. Basically we are just converting to regular quotes etc, which are supported in all encodings.

There isn't much hope of converting user input to unicode, the forms should only accept unicode data in the first place. (BTW, the default openacs config.tcl should be configured to support unicode input at least since 5.1, possibly earlier, you might want to check yours.)