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This issue of quotes, mdashes and such turning into strange characters is why I use the numeric representations in my HTML markup. For example, for a left-double-curly-quote, & # 8220 ; and & # 8221 ; for the right. This is the only way to guarantee that non-ASCII characters will display properly on different systems.
This is especially true with XHTML, as the only such characters defined by name are & lt ;, & gt ; & amp ; (I think there are a few more, I just don't remember them right now). Not even the & nbsp ; is defined for XHTML.
Note that I had to insert spaces on each of those tags. The BBS software shows the character and not the tag that I entered, even if I wrap them in CODE tags.
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