andrew said:
>   If you want some history, basically you can blame microsoft.

what kind of "history" is that?

c'mon, let's go _back_.

let's blame the serpent in the garden of eden who
tempted eve to take a bite of the forbidden fruit...

get real.  and stop making excuses.

now that marcello knows that the encoding declaration
can't be trusted, he can _improve_ his converter script
by actually doing some reality-checks on the text itself,
to make sure it actually is the encoding it claims to be.
and apostrophes would be an _excellent_ way to start...

or better yet, run such a checker-program against the
entire library, and ferret out the incorrect declarations,
so the converter script _can_ know the encoding for sure.

-bowerbird