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/// Replaces commonly-used Windows 1252 encoded chars that do not exist in ASCII or ISO-8859-1 with ISO-8859-1 cognates.
function replaceBadChars(text) {
    var s = text;
    // smart single quotes and apostrophe
    s = s.replace(/[\u2018\u2019\u201A]/g, "\'");
    // smart double quotes
    s = s.replace(/[\u201C\u201D\u201E]/g, "\"");
    // ellipsis
    s = s.replace(/\u2026/g, "...");
    // dashes
    s = s.replace(/[\u2013\u2014]/g, "-");
    // circumflex
    s = s.replace(/\u02C6/g, "^");
    // open angle bracket
    s = s.replace(/\u2039/g, "<");
    // close angle bracket
    s = s.replace(/\u203A/g, ">");
    // spaces
    s = s.replace(/[\u02DC\u00A0]/g, " ");
    
    return s;
}