Curly Quotes

Hey! I have Dreamweaver 8 and for the most part I love it. The problem is I
copy text from a .txt file with no formatting and I always end up with curly
quotes. I upload my page and in IE6, they show up as boxes. Now, everytime I
update a client's page (which is all day long), I have to find and replace all
quotes. I understand it would be best to put in the character number for these
quotes, but I was wondering why Dreamweaver 8 doesn't do this automatically. Is
there a way to make the " or the character number for quotes the default? I am
about to go back to DWMX since I didn't have to fix my quotes on a regular
basis.

Are there "curely quotes" in your text files, or the regular double quote
character as found beside the semicolon key on your keyboard? Do you copy
text from a Word doc into a text editor? I've found that I can copy text
from a Word doc and place it into an UltraEdit text file, and the
typographer's quotes go with it.

Also, what character set have you defined for your page? I've found that
ISO-8859 and UTF-8 encoding render the quotes properly in both Internet
Explorer and Firefox.

Best regards,
Chris

The quotes come from a Notepad.txt file. I didn't think Notepad had the ability
to contain curly quotes.

I am not sure how to define a character set for my page.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I looked and the default character set is ISO-8859. I am
not sure what happened, but the "s don't seem to be an issue anymore. I guess
'user error' is the only answer I have. I am not doing anything differently and
now they show up just right.

Thanks for pulling ideas out of your head... Can you get them back in now?

Luckily, my ears still seems to be open. I'll just stuff them back in that
way ;-)

Best regards,
Chris