replace MSWord smart quotes in asp.net webform

Question

I am having a problem where users are composing some large chunks of text in MS Word, then pasting that in to the online form. These get entered into the DB as an upside down ?. What are my options to replace these with standard quotes?

Answer 1

These smart quotes are a unicode point. All you need is a simple String.Replace to sort them out.

-edit- Something like:

mystring.Replace("\u201C","\"").Replace("\u201D","\"")