Protege is utf-8 compatible, which means it can process and display utf-8 characters. In the course of editing, many editors prepare their concepts or concept information in Microsoft Word or Excel. They then copy from Microsoft and paste into Protege. This can cause problems because Microsoft is not purely utf-8 compatible. The paste operation can introduce characters that Protege does not know how to process. The instructions below show how to avoid these problems.
Table of characters in Microsoft and their utf-8 equivalents
Thanks to Interwingly for providing this table.
If you are running on a Microsoft platform, or cut and paste from documents produced by Microsoft software, or even allow comments to be posted by people who might be doing one of the above, you need to be aware of the 27 differences, summarized by the table below:
Converting Microsoft Characters to UTF-8 in Word 2003
Converting Microsoft Characters to UTF-8 in Word and Excel 2007
