>As for "upgrading the toolset", none of the WWers has the programming skills to upgrade software like Gutcheck/Jeebies/Gutspell to properly handle UTF8 files, check curly quotes, etc, etc. 

Granted, Windows-only right now, but I did gutcheck_u [Unicode version of gutcheck], and now I am sending Al  a gutspell_u [ask me if anyone else wants it.]

I don’t think it’s hard to get you better tools if you ask for them on this forum.

Just don’t say for example “it’s got to work exactly like gutcheck except on Unicode” – because that description is an oxymoron.  Firstly it’s hard to track down and exactly duplicate all the bugs that are already in there, and secondly, the checks one would want on a Unicode file are not identical to the checks one would want on an ASCII file.