Dear Bill
You are right, but that is rarely a problem for me so I have ignored the
problem. What I would like to find is a list of the upper asci characters
that are used in creating characters in the language used for web sites such as
hypens and single and double quotation marks so that if I down load from a
newspaper web site or lexis or factiva I can strip out the upper asci characters
that are used and convert them easily back to the character that are intended to
be.
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To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx href="xywrite@xxxxxxxxxywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:52
AM
Subject: Re: copying & pasting
between XY and MS
When converting a document
generated by windows application such as excell or word, I paste it into a
notepad since it seems to strip out hard returns, store the file with a txt
extension and than retrieve it in xy.
That's fine,
except it doesn't deal with potential upper ascii characters from Windows,
such as left and right single and double quotes, which include the apostrophe.
For example, if I want to paste the following quote from Windows (copied from
today's NYT):
ArtsBeat: ?Lost? Watch
I can't, because it uses
left and right quotes. But if it had used inch/foot marks, I'd be
OK:
ArtsBeat: 'Lost' Watch
Similar problems arise with currency
symbols other than $, with en and em dashes, and with any accented character.
Is there a way to translate WinUpperAscii into XyUpperAscii
before the paste hits the screen and jumbles everything up?
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