Copy and Paste from Word causes problems with curly quotes and apostrophes

David Carter-Tod Manila-Newbies@userland.com
Tue, 06 Aug 2002 12:08:33 -0400


At 11:04 AM 8/6/2002 -0500, R. Scott Granneman wrote:
>No, it's occuring because Microsoft's WYSIWYG, which is what anyone using 
>Manila via Windows/IE5+ is using, is garbage.

If you have your own Manila server, you can set it up to use my Tidy 
scripts, which automatically make sure your HTML is standards compliant, 
including fixing curly quotes.

http://www.wcc.vccs.edu/dtod/frontier/tidy.html

David
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