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19 years ago
As an effort to remove those Word copy and paste smart quotes, I've found that this works with UTF8 encoded strings (where $text in the following example is UTF8). Also the elipsis and em and en dashes are replaced.

There is an "invisible" character after the â€ for the right side double smart quote that doesn't seem to display here. It is chr(157).

<?php
  $find[] = 'â€œ';  // left side double smart quote
  $find[] = 'â€';  // right side double smart quote
  $find[] = 'â€˜';  // left side single smart quote
  $find[] = 'â€™';  // right side single smart quote
  $find[] = 'â€¦';  // elipsis
  $find[] = 'â€”';  // em dash
  $find[] = 'â€“';  // en dash

  $replace[] = '"';
  $replace[] = '"';
  $replace[] = "'";
  $replace[] = "'";
  $replace[] = "...";
  $replace[] = "-";
  $replace[] = "-";

  $text = str_replace($find, $replace, $text);
?>
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