Sanitize Text (from Word in the first one) Word stuff from: http://www.paulund.co.uk/sanitize-special-word-characters

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function sanitize_from_word( $content )
{
    // Convert microsoft special characters
    $replace = array(
        "‘" => "'",
        "’" => "'",
        "”" => '"',
        "“" => '"',
        "–" => "-",
        "—" => "-",
        "…" => "…"
    );
        
    foreach($replace as $k => $v)
    {
        $content = str_replace($k, $v, $content);
    }
        
    // Remove any non-ascii character
    $content = preg_replace('/[^\x20-\x7E]*/','', $content);

    return $content;
}