Filter for special characters?

[Brett Charbeneau <brett @ wrl . org>]

	I would like to post a question as well as offer a solution to a 
particular problem we experience with majordomo every few weeks.
	I have a user who moderates a closed list and frequently makes posts 
that contain "special" characters, for lack of a better term, imbedded in her 
text.
	Here are two examples:

"Paxton's 40-year career. A two-time Grammy® nominee, he has received the"

"Tafelmusik of Toronto and Concerto Köln in addition to other early and"

	Please note the "®" and "ö" in these two lines. These are seen as
control characters by the Majordomo program and cause the program to behave
in unpredictable ways. Posts that contain characters like this will not 
distribute nor bounce.
	QUESTION: is there a filter of some sort for MJ that will remove and or 
escape these sorts of characters so as to not offend/confuse?
	WORKAROUND: I've discovered if you cut and paste text like this into 
MS Word (not WordPad) and do a "Save As", selecting "MS-DOS Text (*.txt) as the 
"Save as type:" that these sorts of special characters will be removed in that 
saved file.
	If you then pull that file up into Word or someother text editor and cut 
and past into an email client things move ahead as expected.


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