To start, add this to your form tag: accept-charset'utf-8'. In my experience, it's easier to just accept the smart quotes and make sure you're using the same encoding everywhere. Use your operating system’s character map. Just make sure your php file is saved in the right encoding format, etc. In Google Docs, go to Tools, Preferences. If you want to do the same in Scrivener, go to Tool, Options, Corrections, Edit Substitutions. The dash is now copied to your clipboard. em (dot em) in Microsoft Word, it will be replaced by an em dash, and. received "bad" Word files and converted the junk in a consistent, foolproof manner?Īny suggestions are terribly welcome. To insert an en dash or em dash anywhere, follow these steps: Go to . In order to insert the em dash Symbol into your word document, release the Alt key once the numeric keypad numbers have been entered. I have a weathered copy of that photograph in my own personal collection. Has anyone solved this problem at the source before? i.e. Some word-processing programs have a mark called an em-dash (longer than a. Easy enough "find and replace" on the quotes, but there's really no easy way to rid myself of the other ugly characters. You must use the minus sign (-) on the numeric keypad if you use the hyphen character on the alphanumeric keypad, Word will change the cursor. Long story short:ġ) My business partner manages freelancer writers that work for us.Ģ) Everyone (business partner and freelancers) insists on using MS Word (hey, it's great to write printed stuff.not so much for anything that's going on the Web).ģ) Much of this content is for an SEO company - putting the copy online (MySQL database) results in all kinds of problems with all the characters conversions that Word does (quotes, apostrophes, en-dash, em-dash, ellipses) even with UTF-8 content type specified.Ĥ) I'm can't really fix this problem with content type declarations and changing MySQL charsets because I have no direct control over such things.īottom line - I need a way to clean up all this stuff in Word AFTER it's produced. This has been posted about before (I've checked, but I want to solve the problem on the MS Word side).
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