converting characters in email

[teroy]

Hi there,
I have a form in html which passes the value of a textarea to a perl script which emails out the value.

All works fine. However...users of the script copy and paste text from Microsoft Word which has smart quotes in it. It displays fine on the web..but when the user receives an email the smart quotes get converted to

“”

Is there some sort of encoding i can use or a work around that anyone knows of?

Thanks in advance

 

[tsdragon]

You can translate the character(s) used for the smart quotes to standard quotes using a simple seach-and-replace regular expression. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.