Nov 16, 2016
Microsoft Word Convert Special Characters to web ready UTF-8
This is useful if you are receiving Word docs for web copy. Often the encoding is different between programs and copying from one to paste into another can render oddities in the browser.
café when it should be café.
Example Mac Word:
Open the file
File > “Save As”
File Format: Plain Text (.txt)
Save – (File Conversion window opens)
Select “Other encoding” radio option
Choose “Unicode (UTF-8)”
Select “Allow character substitution” Option
Click “OK”
Open in text editor
