dread questionmark disease

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dread questionmark disease - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dread questionmark disease
  
  
     n. The result of saving HTML from Microsoft Word or some other
  program
     that uses the nonstandard Microsoft variant of Latin-1; the symptom
  is
     that various of those nonstandard characters in positions 128-160
  show
     up as questionmarks. The usual culprit is the misnamed `smart quotes'
     feature in Microsoft Word. For more details (and a program called
     demoroniser that cleans up the mess) see
     http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/.