title: Converting to ASCII with limited Notepad++
body: <p>IT is tight here, but I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to take a standard XML or HTML file and convert all of the characters using just Notepad++. If I can do it without a plugin that'd be nifty.</p>
  
  <p>I see I can change the encoding to ANSI, but I don't see an option for ASCII, and I don't think they're exactly the same thing, are they? The XML/HTML has to go up on a server, and the ingestion stuff we use doesn't like special characters like apostrophes that don't seem to fit.</p>
  
  <p>I'm guessing because HTTP servers like ASCII. Basically, a lot of time is wasted by techs right now manually pouring over each and every file for these darn characters, which is causing a lot of eyebleed. The encoding of the files by default I think is UTF-8 when they're generated.</p>