hi,
I get some input from a webform textarea elements I don't know what to do with. I suspect the users are cutting & pasting from an MS application of some sort, but the normal recoding tricks ( that I'm familiar with ) don't work. In particular, I have this example: text in normal UTF-8 with a couple 3 byte blocks of stuff. I'm told they're "just" apostrophes, but I don't see it. The input would look like this:

blah blah blah <E2><80><9C> blah blah blah <E2><80><9D> blah blah blah

Does anyone recognize this encoding and, if so, is there a standard way of dealing with it? iconv with the usual MS encodings doesn't do the trick.
Thanks.

In reply to character encoding question by MaskedMarauder

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