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

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

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