January 10, 2006
Posting from Word to Movable Type
Over on the Huffington Post (did you know they have a technology blog?) Andy Yaco-Mink has posted NaughtyWordChars. It's a clever new Movable Type plugin that performs a much-needed function: Cleaning up the weird characters that arise when you copy and paste from Microsoft Word into Movable Type.
These extraneous characters show up because of the vagaries of how different applications encode special characters, but thanks to Andy's plugin, you don't need to know all the details. Just drop in the plugin, note whether you want to turn the characters into plain ASCII or the fancy HTML equivalents, and you're set.
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