Non-standarc character

Hello, I am facing some issues with non-statdard characters. When the user copy and pasts information from MS word to text area of the form, it sometimes converts ' and " into curly ' or and curly " respectively. When this is entered into the database and selected out from the database and displayed on the website, it comes out as upside down question marks.
It seems to be happening on oracle website as well.
Any idea on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

becks wrote:
URLencoder is java.Yeah I know.
Just wondering how other people do it as well? I feel that should not let users copy paste those funny character into the system.Well it's not a very good system if it doesn't support Unicode. It's not that big an effort after all. Of course if you're not familiar with character encoding and unicode, I recommend you read this:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

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