There are some problems in the way you posted which make it very hard to know just how to help.

The chief issue is your link to an IBM page (where "this page" eq http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/brjrules/v7r0m3/basic/tocView.jsp?toc=/com.ibm.websphere.ilog.jrules.doc/toc.xml) which leads me to a TOC where the phrase "What's New" is NOT found. As I'm sure you can imagine, even the Monks most generous with their time may consider that a war-stopper.

The second most serious shortcoming is the possibly unusual sense of your use of the phrase, "smart quotes." At least in the context of M$ Word refers to four very specific characters,

  1. ‘ (‘ or 0x91)
  2. ’ (’)
  3. “ (&#147)
          and
  4. ” (&#148)
.

That leaves me completely at sixes and nines as to what you mean by your second paragraph. It would probably be better to actually insert the chars inside quotes or somesuch so we can see what's giving you grief... and thus be more likely able to help. (It would also be a helpful were you to post a compilable snippet of your code \the bare minimum to show us how you're trying to deal with the non-ascii chars]).

Third, demoronizer is probably not quite up to the job, unless you make the same patch to your copy (assuming versions are the same) that derby provided in a reply in the thread you cited.

And, fourth, please use tags from the PM variant of HTML; especially, please use the [id://485212] method of creating links. If you link with a full a href..., your link will result in some significant fraction of the Monks who follow it finding themselves logged out. For further reference, see What shortcuts can I use for linking to other information?.

In reply to Re: converting smart quotes by ww
in thread converting smart quotes by slugger415

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