Steve Hayes wrote:
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:33:40 +0000, Andy
wrote:

Steve Hayes wrote:

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:25:48 +1100, Peter wrote:

symbols are scattered about at random in the body of the text. VIS:
’s
“
â€
†“

I've never managed to work out how to read it.

You can paste them here and decode them
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/c...r/utf8-decoder

Be nice if it gave a plain ascii version too.

it does output aa raw version, for the symbols above it gave

’s
“

“

unfortunately it won't take the full paragraph from the O/P and convert
that, I dare say there are other tools out there that can.