Some characters are particularly problematic for electronic media. For example, the older type-setting tradition of curly apostrophes (’) and curly quotation marks (“ ”) corresponds to print media. They were not available on mechanical typewriters at all and are not immediately available on computer keyboards either. (They need to be looked up in character tables.) Like straight apostrophes (') and straight quotation marks (" ") they are available on word processors, but curly quotation marks are often misinterpreted by web servers and incorrectly displayed on web pages.

You may encounter problems with other special characters. Our recommendation is to save Microsoft Word documents in .docx format (which, by default, uses standard Unicode UTF-8 character encoding).