Clean Text Pasted From Microsoft Word

cleanstring.js

function cleanstring(dirty){
	var smartchr = [ "’","‘","“","”","–","—","…", " ", '„', '‚' , '«','»', '‹', '›'];
	var correctchr = ["'", "'", '"', '"', '-', '-', '...', '', '"', "'", '"', '"', "'", "'"];

	var thestring = dirty;
	var regex; 
  	for (var i = 0; i < smartchr.length; i++) {
    	regex = new RegExp(smartchr[i], "g");
    	thestring = thestring.replace(regex, correctchr[i]);
	}	


	return thestring;
}