Arguing with the blogware

"Saving the file with utf-8 and reopening and attempting to post quote was still a fail."

Ok, diff format? Sorry. Not at the desktop, can't check the choices, but I thought I recalled getting a Notepad warning that 'you will lose characters if you save,' when the doc had high-end material and I tried to save in the low-end format. You lose the characters, of course; they're not replaced.

What you really need is my handy dandy utility which corrects all those fancy-pants apostrophes and quotes to plain ASCII. Alas, said utility program its not ready for public release, and the way I program never will be.