HTML Special Characters Encoding

Hi Guys,
I have a problem with pasting contents from MS Word to messagetextinput. The double quotes becomes numbers or ? or different character. The quotes are smart quotes not the straight quotes. For example:
I'll paste "TEST"
Then when i paste it in messagetextinput, it is the same. Then saved it to database and when retrieved, it will display... “Test”...
What can I do to solve this? Any suggestions?
Please help. Thanks!

maeve,
Text copied from Word won't be plain ascii text but the formatted text which contains control characters. You should avoid copy, pasting from text formatters.
I hope that the issue doesn't exist for text typed into the field.
--Shiv

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