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XHTML Compliance - Microsoft word apostrophe

Hi I have a news page updated by a control panel which users just often copy and paste news items from a Microsoft Word document. I want the output page to be html compliant and have a replace function on the page for the & symbol and a few others. I cannot find one for the curly apostrophe that comes from the Word Document.

server.htmlencode will not work as i want to be able to include html links in the item.

Thanks

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harris9999

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Hi,

I want to be able to include the html tag in the text area, so that a link could be added if required. Thats why i can't use, server.htmlencode.
I just noticed a typo in my initial message. i want the output to be xhtml compliant.
In the page where it is output i replace the & symbol etc

                  strText = replace(rs.fields("Details"),"’","'")
                  strText = replace(strText,"&","&")
                  strText = replace(strText,"’","'")
                  strText = replace(strText,"’","'")
                  strText = replace(strText,"‘","'")
                  strText = replace(strText,"’","'")

i have tried to replace the various aprostophe's but i can't get one to replace the apostrophe which is pasted from a word document, and it is this one which breaks the xhtml compliance.

harris9999

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strText = replace(strText, Chr(146),"'")

This fixed the problem