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Originally Posted by HarryT
Be warned, though, that these automated methods are not 100% reliable.
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Indeed. I use WordStar, an old DOS word processor, and WS doesn't do curly quotes (or em dashes, for that matter). So whenever I open a file in Word, I must clean up those omissions. Where Word fails every time (and where I suspect every automagical repair tool would fail) is words that have been truncated by omitting initial letters or syllables, such as the
'ell for
hell you cited earlier.