[Info-vax] character set translation for language accents

[P. Sture]

In article <49ea6dd8$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for the warning.  I've just received a bunch of MS Office files
for processing ...

-- 
Paul Sture