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Kill Microsoft Word "Smart" Quotes and other fancy characters from text files.
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gistfile1.txt
s/[\x93\x94]/\"/g
s/[\x91\x92]/\'/g
s/[\x95\xa6]/\*/g
s/[\x85\x96\x97]/\-/g
Works in sed, vim, etc.
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