[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[Arne Vajhøj]

P. Sture wrote:
> In article <uOCE7ZmtHtUW at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>  koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
>>    And beware of things like MS "smart quotes".  These are done in
>>    violation of character set standards and will not show up correctly
>>    on most systems.
> 
> I'm not sure if they are the same thing, but the default for OpenOffice 
> is to convert "standard" quotes to "custom" quotes (text documents _and_ 
> spreadsheets.
> 
> And something I recently encountered, by default Open Office also 
> automatically (and silently) replaces minus signs surrounded by spaces 
> (" - ") with em-dash, in text documents _and_ spreadsheets.
> 
> Workaround for your own documents: in Tools | AutoCorrect | Options, 
> switch off 'Replace dashes' and 'Replace "standard" quotes with "custom" 
> quotes'.

Programs that changes the content without asking are a PITA.

MS Office can also do that.

Arne