Special Characters in HTML

[platinum]

Forgive me if this was a topic in the archived forum. I am starting to use CSE to validate pages that have special MS Word characters. Smart quotes, apostrophes, etc. Currently I am filtering those out in Dreamweaver MX but I would love to integrate them as ERRORS in the CSE validator.

Any suggestions for how to start this. I found the Program Event for Text within the validator settings, but as far as validating the characters it finds, im not sure where to go from there.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

You may first want to try checking "Check for high ASCII characters" in the Validator 2 tab of Options->Validator Engine Options. If that doesn't work well for you, then please let me know.

[platinum]

Yes, that does seem to catch the smartquotes, the smart em's and the funny apostrophes.

Thanks!