Protégé and UTF-8

Protégé 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 Protégé. This can cause problems because Microsoft is not purely utf-8 compatible. The paste operation can introduce characters that Protégé 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 following table.

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	win-1252			unicode
character	decimal	hex	octal	html	xml	url
€	128	80	200	€	€	%E2%82%AC
‚	130	82	202	&sbquo;	‚	%E2%80%9A
ƒ	131	83	203	&fnof;	ƒ	%C6%92
„	132	84	204	&bdquo;	„	%E2%80%9E
…	133	85	205	…	&#x2026	%E2%80%A6
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
				&	&
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‚
130
82
202
‚
‚
%E2%80%9A

ƒ
131
83
203
ƒ
ƒ
%C6%92

„
132
84
204
„
„
%E2%80%9E

…
133
85
205
…
…
%E2%80%A6

†
134
86
206
†
†
%E2%80%A0

‡
135
87
207
‡
‡
%E2%80%A1

ˆ
136
88
210
ˆ
ˆ
%CB%86

‰
137
89
211
‰
‰
%E2%80%B0

Š
138
8A
212
Š
Š
%C5%A0

‹
139
8B
213
‹
‹
%E2%80%B9

Œ
140
8C
214
Œ
Œ
%C5%92

Ž
142
8E
216
Ž
Ž
%C5%BD

‘
145
91
221
‘
‘
%E2%80%98

’
146
92
222
’
’
%E2%80%99

“
147
93
223
“
“
%E2%80%9C

”
148
94
224
”
”
%E2%80%9D

•
149
95
225
•
•
%E2%80%A2

–
150
96
226
–
–
%E2%80%93

—
151
97
227
—
—
%E2%80%94

˜
152
98
230
˜
˜
%CB%9C

™
153
99
231
™
™
%E2%84%A2

š
154
9A
232
š
š
%C5%A1

›
155
9B
233
›
›
%E2%80%BA

œ
156
9C
234
œ
œ
%C5%93

ž
158
9E
236
ž
ž
%C5%BE

Ÿ
159
9F
237
Ÿ
Ÿ
%C5%B8

Converting Microsoft Characters to UTF-8 in Word 2003

Thanks to Liverpool John Mores University for providing the following instructions:

Once your editing in Word is complete, choose File->Save As...
Choose from the format drop-menu the option 'Plain Text (.txt)*'
Save the file to a known location, your desktop for example.
Before the file saves, a dialog box will appear asking you about encoding: Choose 'other encoding'.
Then make sure you check the 'Allow Character Substitution' box.
Your document is then previewed, and you will see all characters such as 'curly quotes' are replaced with 'safe' ones.

You can then open the saved .txt file and safely copy the contents you require into a web page that uses UTF-8 encoding.