When you absolutely, positively can’t manage your character encoding
DumbQuotes : Greasemonkey script to turn curly quotes, em dashes, and other fripperies of typography back into the things that were good enough for our 7-bit world. Because sometimes it’s easier to dull the entire world than to sharpen the character encoding handling of your publishing chain. I guess. Beats seeing â€â€? all the time. (Script idea: convert all the ‒s of UTF-8-as-Win1252 back into the proper character.)
A script dedicated to Doctorow. Now if Cory dedicates a book to Pilgrim, we’ll know the world has slipped into total geekdom. Not that that’s a bad thing.