Question

I am seeing an issue with quotation marks that showed correctly under TWiki3 but show as ? (unrecognized characters) on TWiki4.

Its not all quotation marks. I suspect the user actually pasted them in from a Word document. When I look at the twiki file in vi, I see the char as:

<93> and <94>

I was wondering if there is a header setting that needs to be modified? Or if there is an easy way to grep through the files and change the bad char to a proper quote mark.

Seems trivial, but I can't figure out how to fix this (since the issue is across out twiki installation I am looking for a 'global' solution).

Environment

-- EricHanson - 24 Aug 2006

Answer

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Some character translation is done in Dakar which was not part of Cairo.

Besides using your favorite search-and-replace tool directly on the .txt files, you could also use the GlobalReplacePlugin for the task.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 24 Aug 2006

If anyone else has this issue, the best answer seems to use a command line loop and run everything through the program 'demoroniser' (not a nice name, but if fixes Microsoftisms such as smart quotes).

-- EricHanson - 31 Aug 2006