#!/usr/bin/perl -nw
#
# Written by Laurent Moss
use Encode;
#Remove Microsoft Word shit
#
s/[\x91\x92]/\\'/g;
s/[\x96\x97]/-/g;
s/\x9C/oe/g;
s/\x8C/OE/g;
#Change encoding
Encode::from_to($_, 'iso-8859-1', 'utf8');
print;
Note: I used this script when upgrading old mysql3 tikis to more recent databases.
MS Word special characters like the curly bracket could be replaced by a question mark (?)