dread questionmark disease

dread questionmark disease


   n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other program
   that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom is
   that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160 show
   up as questionmarks. The usual culprit is the misnamed `smart quotes'
   feature in Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called
   demoroniser that cleans up the mess) see
   http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/.