SPUG:regex question

[Ben Reser]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 04:57:59PM -0800, Islandman wrote:
>  Regex problem. A user wants to cut-n-paste text from a WORD doc into a
> browser form. The WORD doc of course has nasty non-alpha characters in
> it that I'd like to remove in most cases, perhaps replace with other
> text in a few others. Here's an example:
>  
>  Your kids complain, Â~SNot that again!Â~T
> 
> BTW,  was a "bullet" in WORD. 
> 
> What kind of regex would help clean this text, or is there a better
> solution to the problem?

I'm not sure how much this will help but take a look at demoroniser.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/

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