Dread questionmark disease

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dread questionmark disease

Usage: n.

dread questionmark disease: n.

n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom is that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show up as questionmarks. The usual culprit is the misnamed `smart quotes' feature in Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called demoroniser that cleans up the mess) see http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/.

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• http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

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