title: How do you deal with the "special" characters that MS Word adds?
body: <p>I'm wondering how you clean the special characters that MS Word as, such as m- and n-dashes and curly quotes?</p>
  
  <p>I often find myself copying content from clients from Word and pasting into a static HTML page, but the content ends up with weird characters because the special characters are not converted to their correct ACSII codes and therefore show up as garbled text. (For these basic websites, I'm using Dreamweaver.)</p>
  
  <p>I have seen a lot of similar problems when clients copy content from Word into text only fields (mostly textareas). When I put this into a PDF (through PHP) or it shows up on the page it too has garbled text.</p>
  
  <p>How do you deal with this? Is there a cleaning service or program you use?</p>