[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107469] New: Export to MediaWiki struggles with "fancy" quotes and other characters

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107469

            Bug ID: 107469
           Summary: Export to MediaWiki struggles with "fancy" quotes and
                    other characters
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.3.2.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: dejannk at gmail.com

Description:
Word replaces stabndard ascii characters with "fancy" ones. 

If I export Word document contining these characters to MediaWiki format fancy
hyphens, quotes and apostrophes are converted into wrong characters. 

Hyphen – 
“double quoteâ€
‘single quote’
apostophe’s 


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a Word document containing hyphens and quotes. Make sure Word
converts them to "fancy" ones 
2. Export to MediaWiki format
3. Open the text files

Actual Results:  
–, ’

Expected Results:
-, "


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Builds ID: LibreOffice 5.3.2.2


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like
Gecko

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