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escape-windows-curly-quotes-and-extended-characters.rb
require 'iconv'
# assume windoze_str is a string that contains curly quotes or other windows extended characters
conv = Iconv.new('ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT', 'UTF-8')
# remove MS Word curly quotes and other Windows extended character crap
unicode_str = conv.iconv windoze_str
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