Curly quotes and apostrophes, which I've whined about in great detail over the months, only account for most of our garbled text.
The rest?
Usually dashes.
It happens when MS Word (or its equivalent) "helpfully" converts double-hyphens into hard dashes, and Movable Type chokes on those.
Best thing to do? Replace the dashes with this code:
—
That gives you the nice, smooth dash you need and none of the gobbledygook nightmares.
And it saves your editors time. And that's a good thing. Right?
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