MS Word's smart quotes cause all kinds of problems when pasted into web applications as they're none standard characters. In Ruby, the following works, replacing them with ' and " , which can then be turned into the proper entities with textile etc.
Perhaps someone can implement this in a nicer way.
string.gsub! "\342\200\230", "'" string.gsub! "\342\200\231", "'" string.gsub! "\342\200\234", '"' string.gsub! "\342\200\235", '"'
Perhaps someone can implement this in a nicer way.
