MS-Word Copy-Pasters

  • I have setup WordPress blogs for a few people now and am hitting a common problem in that a lot of people copy content from MS-Word straight into WordPress.

    The problem is that Word has already converted many ‘ into a€? and ” ” into a€? a€?. This makes the page not validate as it’s not in the UTF-8 characterset anymore.

    It is fine if you enter the ‘ and ” characters into WordPress and allow WordPress to convert them to #8217; … etc. But if you paste from Word, you hit this problem. Sometimes you even get a little question mark character show in the blog when using FireFox, for where this non UTF-8 character is supposed to be.

    Maybe, would it be possible… if there are higher level (non UTF-8) characers in your post, to convert them straight to things like #8217; #8220; #8221; to keep it valid.

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